James Clerk Maxwell — "I have been trying to think what is the difference between an experiment and an …"

"The greatest discovery ever made was the discovery of ignorance."

"It is a perfect pleasure to think of anything that is not connected with the examination."

"If I am not mistaken, there is a good deal of nonsense in the world."

"The mathematical difficulties of the subject are so enormous that it is only by great patience and perseverance that we can hope to overcome them."

"In the very beginning of science, the parsons, who managed things then, Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness o' men; Till Commerce arose and at length some men of exceptional …"