What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me.
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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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Source: Letter to his wife, 1879Unverified
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