James Clerk Maxwell on christ
James Clerk Maxwell62 quotes“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.”
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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 MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell 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.
James Clerk MaxwellJames 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.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.
James Clerk MaxwellJames 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.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell What’s the go of that? What’s the particular go of that?
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell 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.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell 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 MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
James Clerk MaxwellJames 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?
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
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