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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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.
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Flatter Idea Language Mathematician Mere Possess Themselves Unable Yet
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
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All Between Found Mathematically Number Relation
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life.

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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life.
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Accompanied Alternation Application Disturbance Doctrine Material Popularisation Scientific
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.

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Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.
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Distinguish Expansion Form Gasses Indentifite Large Other Vessel
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.

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Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.
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Deli Tous Expression Germ Hobby Invent Other Seem Structureless
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.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
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Into Most Non Philosophical Seem System
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

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.
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Assimilate Mostly Original Raed Subject
We define thermodynamics … as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

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We define thermodynamics … as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.
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Deduct Entirely First Molecular Property Second Speculation Thermal Thermodynamics
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
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

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Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
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Electromagnetism Enlarge Faraday Must
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.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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 Mathematical Number Reduce Relation
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
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.

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
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Incomplete Itself Nothing Upon

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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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