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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

James Clerk Maxwell

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Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
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Certain Destroy Generate Het Process Show Substance
When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.
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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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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.
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Interplanetary Place Regard Region Universe Vast
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
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Avenue Country Destroy Fancy Infinite Long People Person Think Unbound Universe
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 Great Material Mental Popularisation Produce Scientific Society State
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 Convince Greta Gun Hold Paper Theory
Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
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Body Flyin Gin Met Through
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
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
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Ampere Electricity Newton
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.
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Battering Breach Change Effect Ever Now Retuning Ring Saturn Several Solid Splash
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
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
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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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God Into Look Most Non Philosophical Seem System
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don’t, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.
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