James Clerk Maxwell Quotes About Science

• La ciencia se vuelve soportable cuando nos interesamos por los grandes descubridores y sus vidas, y fascinante cuando empezamos a seguir el desarrollo de las ideas.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Descubrimiento, Ideas

• Es de gran ventaja para el estudiante de cualquier materia leer las memorias originales sobre ese tema, pues la ciencia siempre se asimila más completamente cuando está en estado naciente.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Estudiantes, Física

  James Clerk Maxwell (1954). "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism", p.11, Courier Corporation

• La verdadera Lógica para este mundo es el Cálculo de Probabilidades, que tiene en cuenta la magnitud de la probabilidad.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Mundo, Lógica

  "Cartas y documentos científicos de James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862".

• In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Thinking, Details

• The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Descubrimiento, Derecho

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.111, MIT Press

• También tengo un artículo a flote, con una teoría electromagnética de la luz, que, hasta que me convenzan de lo contrario, sostengo como grandes armas.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Arma, Luz

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). "The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:", p.203, CUP Archive

• What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Particular

• Apenas podemos evitar la inferencia de que la luz consiste en las ondulaciones transversales del mismo medio que es la causa de los fenómenos eléctricos y magnéticos.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Light, Causes

  "On Physical Lines of Force" (1862)

• Esa pequeña palabra, "Fuerza", se convierte en un bloque de barbero, Listo para poner en significados más extraños y variados, aptos para conmocionar a los alumnos de Newton.... Vis viva y Vis Mortua y Vis Acceleratrix:- Esas palabras largamente amasadas que a nuestros libros de texto todavía se aferran por sus títulos, y de ellos se arrastran, como lo hacen los entozoos, a nuestros órganos vitales. Pero, ¡vean! Tait escribe en símbolos lúcidos y claros Una pequeña ecuación; Y la Fuerza se convierte de la Energía en una mera variación del Espacio.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Bloqueo, Libro, Escritura

• What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at the right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both at right angles to the direction of the ray.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Light, Opposites

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.195, CUP Archive

• En los cielos descubrimos [las estrellas] por su luz, y sólo por su luz... la única prueba de la existencia de estos mundos distantes... que cada uno de ellos está formado por moléculas de los mismos tipos que encontramos en la Tierra. Una molécula de hidrógeno, por ejemplo, ya sea en Sirio o en Arcturus, ejecuta sus vibraciones exactamente al mismo tiempo. Así pues, cada molécula del universo lleva impreso el sello de un sistema métrico tan claramente como el metro de los Archivos de París o el codo real del Templo de Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Stars, Science, Light

• Pero cuando nos enfrentamos a las grandes preguntas sobre la gravitación ¿Requiere tiempo? ¿Es polar al "exterior del universo" o a algo? ¿tiene alguna relación con la electricidad o se basa en la materia, la masa o la inercia? entonces sentimos la necesidad de realizar pruebas, ya sean cometas, nebulosas, experimentos de laboratorio o preguntas audaces sobre la veracidad de las opiniones recibidas.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Doe, Needs

• Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules [i.e. atoms] out of which these systems are built-the foundation stones of the material universe-remain unbroken and unworn.‎ They continue to this day as they were created-perfect in number and measure and weight.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Numbers, Perfect

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.377, Courier Corporation

• Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Intelligent, Ideas

• En momentos y lugares bastante inciertos,
  Los átomos dejaron su camino celestial,
  y por abrazos fortuitos,
  engendraron todo lo que el ser tiene.
  Y aunque parecen aferrarse juntos,
  y forman "asociaciones" aquí,
  Sin embargo, pronto o tarde, rompen sus ataduras,
  Y a través de las profundidades de la carrera espacial.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Empleo, Espacio

  James Clerk Maxwell, "Evolución molecular"

• The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Space

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.138, MIT Press

• En tu carta aplicas la palabra imponderable a una molécula. No vuelva a hacerlo. También conviene saber que el éter no puede ser molecular. Si lo fuera, sería un gas, y una pinta de él tendría las mismas propiedades en cuanto a calor, etc., que una pinta de aire, excepto que no pesaría tanto.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Knowing, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.132, MIT Press

• The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood of the electric or magnetic bodies, and it may be called a Dynamical Theory, because it assumes that in the space there is matter in motion, by which the observed electromagnetic phenomena are produced.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Space, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I”, p.527, Courier Corporation

• If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Character, Mean, Science

• But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Change, Sorry, Biblical

  James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.418, Cambridge University Press

• Los matemáticos pueden presumir de poseer ideas nuevas que el mero lenguaje humano es incapaz de expresar. Que hagan el esfuerzo de expresar estas ideas en palabras apropiadas sin la ayuda de símbolos, y si lo consiguen no sólo nos pondrán a los profanos bajo una obligación duradera, sino que, nos atrevemos a decir, se encontrarán muy iluminados durante el proceso, e incluso dudarán de si las ideas expresadas en símbolos han encontrado alguna vez su camino fuera de las ecuaciones a sus mentes.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Ideas, Effort

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). "The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell", p.328, Courier Corporation

• One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Taken, Science, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A treatise on electricity and magnetism”, Dover Pubns

• Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Mean, Gymnastics, Science

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.243, Courier Corporation

• All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Determination, Science, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.156, Courier Corporation

• Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Ciencia, Hombres, Alma

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.760, Courier Corporation

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