James C. Maxwell Quotes
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
Maxwell, James Clerk. "Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics." The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, edited by W. D. Niven, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1890, p. 243.
This was a time when the church and establishment only recognized the Bible and the views of the authorities as a means of knowing and validating knowledge. By appealing to the individual’s own judgment and empiricism he was far ahead of his time. See {586127}.
This quotation illustrates how scientifically sophisticated some of the Founding Fathers were.
This was one of the great scientific predictions of how science would develop.
James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics. His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics" where the first one had been realised by Isaac Newton.
