James C. Maxwell Quotes

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 C. Maxwell

Nature, Science, Problems

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
James C. Maxwell

Example, Wicked, Capacity

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
James C. Maxwell

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.
James C. Maxwell

Greatest, May, Small

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.
James C. Maxwell

Great, Men, Science

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
James C. Maxwell

Human, May, Themselves

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 C. Maxwell

Mind, Hard, Sense

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell

May, Said, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Mathematician

Born: June 13, 1831

Died: November 5, 1879

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