I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me..

Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fu….

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and ar….

Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by t….

My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike….

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the p….

And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, ….

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... Th….

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?.

... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men….

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive..

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic ….

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not….

Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and….

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid mot….

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the….

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we mig….

But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any ….

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one p….

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his ….

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity..