James Clerk Maxwell Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• 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 assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Students, Physics

  James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Discovery, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.111, MIT Press

• The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Illustration, Mind, Analysis

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I”, p.250, Courier Corporation

• The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Philosophical, Giving, Mind

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