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23 James Clerk Maxwell Quotes & Sayings
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23 James Clerk Maxwell Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 13 June 1831. Died: 5 November 1879 |
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Physicist
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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
James Clerk Maxwell
Anyone
Thinks
Sky
Limit
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Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
James Clerk Maxwell
Every time
History repeats
Price
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There’s more to the truth than just the facts.
James Clerk Maxwell
More to truth
Just
The facts
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Choose your ground well. War is a game of geography.
James Clerk Maxwell
Choose
Ground well
War
Game
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A thief believes everybody steals.
James Clerk Maxwell
Thief
Believes
Everybody steals
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An uneasy peace was better than no peace at all.
James Clerk Maxwell
Uneasy peace
Better than
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The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.
James Clerk Maxwell
Greatest test
Courage
Bear defeat
Losing heart
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Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.
James Clerk Maxwell
Have you
Wish
Be saved
Be sure
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One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
James Clerk Maxwell
Weakness
Our age
Apparent inability
Need from
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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
Mathematical difficulties
Theory
Rotation
Geometrical illustrations
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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.
James Clerk Maxwell
Colour
Perceived
Independent variables
Time
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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
Chief philosophical
Value
Physics
Mind
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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
Great advantage
Student
Original memoirs
Science
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers
James Clerk Maxwell
Mathematical sciences
Relations
Physical laws
Numbers
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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
Laws
Matter
Our minds.fabricate
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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
Every branch
Knowledge
Progress
Facts
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
James Clerk Maxwell
Conscious ignorance
Prelude
Real advance
Science
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James Clerk Maxwell
True logic
World
Calculus
Probabilities
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
James Clerk Maxwell
Have looked
Philosophical systems
God
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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 development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.
James Clerk Maxwell
Science
Some interest
Great discoverers
Lives
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I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
James Clerk Maxwell
Capacity
More wicked
Example
Man
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express
James Clerk Maxwell
Mathematicians
Flatter
Possess
New ideas
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... 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 of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
James Clerk Maxwell
Great
Physical constants
Approximately estimated
Men
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James Clerk Maxwell Quotes & Sayings