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The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

James Clerk Maxwell

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 Experiment Mathematician Result Theory Verification
It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.
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Always Deduce Dynamic Electro Formula Perfect Phenomena Unassailable
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.
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Endurable Great Interest Live Science Siccovery Some Take
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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Believe Condition Enjoyable Existence Law Mind Must Mystery Universe
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
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Energy Field Files However Literally Speak Understood
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
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Account Calculus Logic Magnitude Probability Take True World
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.
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Chief Current Depend Doctrine Electric Electromagnetic One Peculiarities Phenomena Same Thing Treatise True
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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Degree Law Same Sea Second Statement Thermodynamics Throw Tumble Water
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
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Law Matter Mind Must Fabricate Only
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
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Capacity Example Man More Set Wick
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
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All Between Found Law Mathematically Number Physical Relation Science
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the ‘Newton of Electricity’.
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Achievement Ampere Between Brilliant Current Electric Experiment Investigation Law Mechanical Most
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other … and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis.
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Another Body Energy Exist Leave Medium Must One Substance Time Transmitted
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
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Between Exact Found Law Mathematical Number Physical Problem Reduce Relation Science
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.
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Amount Build Data Every Branch Facility Fact Knowledge Obtain Progress Proportional Therefore
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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Course Function Independent Least Perceived Show Sufficient Think Three Thrive Time Variable

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