James Clerk Maxwell — "The true beginning of all knowledge is the discovery of something we do not know…"

"Mathematicians my flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

"At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' her…"

"In the present state of science, it would be a rash thing to assert that any one physical constant is absolutely constant."

"I have been thinking about the nature of things, and I have come to the conclusion that there is a good deal of it."

"I am not a great mathematician, but I can do a little."