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“Most creative scientists, even the most prolific and versatile, produce one theory per subject. When that theory has run its course they move on to another topic, or stop inventing. Maxwell was unique in the way he could return to a topic and imbue it with new life by taking an entirely fresh approach.”
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation.”
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
“David Hume, the great eighteenth century Scottish philosopher, had put the cat among the pigeons with his notion of scepticism: that nothing can be proved, except in mathematics, and that much of what we take to be fact is merely conjecture.”
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
― The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
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