James Clerk Maxwell — "I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will wor…"

"I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extens…"

"Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be etern…"

"The peculiar function of the scientific man is to make discoveries, not to talk about them."

"I have been trying to invent a demon who could violate the second law of thermodynamics, but he keeps getting drunk on entropy."

"I saw a rat today in the college garden, and I thought how much more pleasant it would be to be a rat than a professor."