Best Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell (Top 4)

  1. Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
  2. The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
  3. 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.
  4. Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.