Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell

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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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The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me.

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up familiar with it.

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