James Clerk Maxwell — "It is an unscientific habit to give names to things before we know what they are…"
It is an unscientific habit to give names to things before we know what they are.
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"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."
"The true beginning of all knowledge is the discovery of something we do not know."
"The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."
"I have been trying to invent a demon who could violate the second law of thermodynamics, but he keeps getting drunk on entropy."
"The mind of man is like a mirror, which reflects the images of things, but does not always reflect them truly."