James Clerk Maxwell — "I have no doubt that there are many persons who would be very glad to get rid of…"

"The chief philosophical difficulty in the present state of electrical science is to form a distinct conception of the mode in which electrical action is propagated through space."

"The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability."

"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 …"

"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 scienc…"

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