“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...”
“Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service;”
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell was a pioneering Scottish physicist and mathematician whose work laid the groundwork for modern physics and engineering. He is best known for formulating the classical theory of el...