James Clerk Maxwell — "The human mind is in a state of perpetual oscillation between the actual and the…"

"The molecules of a gas are like angry bees in a jar, but far more mathematical."

"The greatest discoveries of science have always been the discovery of our ignorance."

"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 velocity of light is a quantity of which we have now a more accurate knowledge than of any other physical constant."

"The properties of the ether, if it exists, are certainly very remarkable."