The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish theoretical physicist born in 1831 who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in four equations. Maxwell's equations are considered the second great unification in physics, after Newton's mechanics.
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