James Clerk Maxwell — "I am not a great mathematician, but I can do a little."

"At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' her…"

"It is an unscientific habit to give names to things before we know what they are."

"The true beginning of all knowledge is the discovery of something we do not know."

"I have been trying to think what is the difference between an experiment and an experience."

"Mathematicians my flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."