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

James Clerk Maxwell

I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Constant Endeavour Investigation Occupy Ought Place Representation Think Treatise
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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Creation Incomplete Itself Matter Nothing Reason Science Upon
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

Convict Entangled Intellect Liquid Marline Ride Soul Spike Unseen Untwisting Votex Wrought
… 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 Constant Estimate Few Great Left Men Occupation Only Physical Science Will Work Year
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
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.
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Appear Doctrine Emotion Gymnastic Highest Matter Science
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
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
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.
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Anothermeffect Less Mind Nature Professed Scientific Secret Through Unravel Valuable Work Worker
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
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Above Certain Every Existence Influence Magnitude More Physical Point Rank Singular Them These
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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Express Flatter Human Idea Language Mathematician Passes Themselves Unable Yet
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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Advantage Always Assimilate Great Memories Mostly Original Raed Science Student Subject
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

Course Function Independent Least Perceived Show Sufficient Think Three Thrive Time Variable
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

God Into Look Most Non Philosophical Seem System
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.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Amount Build Data Every Branch Facility Fact Knowledge Obtain Progress Proportional Therefore
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Advance Conscious Every Ignorance Prelude Rawal Science

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