James Clerk Maxwell

"I maintain that all the evil influences that I can trace have been internal and not external, you know what I mean—that I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me,…"

"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."

"The whole science of heat is founded Thermometry and, and when these operations are understood we may proceed to the third step, which is the investigation of those relations between the thermal and t…"

"The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Lewis Campbell"

"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."

"BBC Radio 4 In Our Time – James Clerk Maxwell"

"I have also cleared the electromagnetic theory of light from all unwarrantable assumption, so that we may safely determine the velocity of light by measuring the attraction between bodies kept at a gi…"

"The general equations are next applied to the case of a magnetic disturbance propagated through a non-conductive field, and it is shown that the only disturbances which can be so propagated are those …"