Quotes About Maxwell

As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, "In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock.

If my people learn to trust me, I'll get their attention. But if I initiate trust in my people, I'll get their action.

wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.

The family of Senator Maxwell hired a Boise trial lawyer by the name of Frazier Gant

Two hours later, Gant called on his cell. Seemed the Maxwell family had reconsidered

Sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a destiny.

Melodrama is a weirdly drunken plausibility and cannot sincerely be disliked.

Dr. Selye's book written for laymen, The Stress of Life. To me, the really important thing that Dr.

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

The Human Use of Human Beings

I was at first almost frightened when I saw such mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered to see that the subject stood it so well. [Letter to James Clerk Maxwell, 25 March 1857, commenting on Maxwell's paper titled "On Faraday's Lines of Force"]

A characteristic of Maxwell's work, indeed his life, was that he seemed to take everything in his stride—he was never hurried. Somehow, he and Katherine managed to go riding in the park most afternoons and, of course, they went on accumulating data on color vision, asking all new houseguests to have a go. They had installed the latest big color box near the window in an upstairs

It is almost impossible to overstate the scale of Faraday and Maxwell's achievement in bringing the concept of the electromagnetic field into human thought.

Although Maxwell had set out the theory as clearly as he could in his paper "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" and later in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, almost nobody understood it during his lifetime.

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.

Coincidentally, the solver of the riddle (how the speed of light appears to a moving observer) would be born in the year of Maxwell's death.