James Clerk Maxwell — "I saw a rat today in the college garden, and I thought how much more pleasant it…"

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

"The world may be utterly crazy, and life may be labour in vain; But I'd rather be silly than lazy, and would not quit life for its pain."

"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present."

"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…"

"I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols tr…"