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.

- James Clerk Maxwell

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the …

- James Clerk Maxwell

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

- James Clerk Maxwell

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, …

- James Clerk Maxwell

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

- James Clerk Maxwell

Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when w…

- James Clerk Maxwell

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

- James Clerk Maxwell

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

- James Clerk Maxwell

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

- James Clerk Maxwell