I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science t….

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns..

What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbance….

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter..

We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law o….

In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it lea….

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged th….

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express..

Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light p….

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathem….

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science….

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, t….

The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood of the el….

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilate….

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in..

The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant ac….

In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in….

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that e….

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science..

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to ….

The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successiv….