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 the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules [i.e. atoms] out of which these systems are built-the foundation stones of the material universe-remain unbroken and unworn. They continue to this day as they were created-perfect in number and measure and weight.
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
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
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 …
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
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
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
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, …
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
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.
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
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…
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. - James Clerk Maxwell
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. - James Clerk Maxwell
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism. - James Clerk Maxwell
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
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