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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

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One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Chief Current Doctrine Electric Electromagnetic One Peculiarities Thing Treatise
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, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

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, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
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The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.

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The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.
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Doctrine Evidence Against Mathematician Verification
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.
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Built Distant Each Sole Star Word
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

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The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
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Second Statement Thermodynamics Throw Tumble
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis…

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But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis…
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Conjectural Expanse Fastened Found Hypothesis Interception Mist Rate Scientific Sorry Text
What’s the go of that? What’s the particular go of that?

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What’s the go of that? What’s the particular go of that?
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Go Particular
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
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Also Contrary Greta Hold
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.

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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.
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Enjoyable Must
… 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.

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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.
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Approximately Few Left Occupation Only Year
My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying,

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying,
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Convict Entangled Liquid Marline Spike Unseen Untwisting Votex Wrought
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form ‘associations’ here, Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether, And through the depths of space career.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form ‘associations’ here, Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether, And through the depths of space career.
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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Flatter Idea Language Mathematician Passes Themselves Unable Yet
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
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Certain Generate Het Substance
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
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Extent Hard Infinite Itself Many Material Prep; Exed
The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

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The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.
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Eualation National Numerical Own Quantities Substuiting Such

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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.

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