The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
— James Clerk Maxwell Modern

Electromagnetic theory

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From his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science

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1870

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Controversial

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