James Clerk Maxwell — "The present state of science is such that we cannot hope to explain all the phen…"

"It is an unscientific habit to give names to things before we know what they are."

"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…"

"Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite…"

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

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