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Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. -- Don Adams
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders. -- Megan Gallagher
Maxwell is the physicist's physicist. -- Stephen Hawking
Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations. -- Heinrich Hertz
I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode. -- Lee Grant
James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ... -- Albert Einstein
I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell -- Ellen Schreiber
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. -- Carl Sagan
You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell. -- David Baldacci
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. -- Albert Einstein
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. -- Donna Tartt
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. -- Paul Johnson
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included. -- Heinrich Hertz
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics. -- Albert Einstein
I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, from a mathematical point of view, equivalent to Maxwell's Theory. -- Joseph John Thomson
Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result? -- Pieter Zeeman
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson. -- Jonathan Dee
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else. -- Thomas Pynchon
There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski. -- James R Newman
It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close. -- Albert Einstein
A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell -- John C. Maxwell
Here's to new blood." -Jagger Maxwell -- Ellen Schreiber
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell. -- Albert Einstein
Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them. -- Diana Wynne Jones
But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist. -- Thomas Pynchon
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. -- Richard P. Feynman
Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home. -- Tad R. Callister
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers. -- G. H. Hardy
If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists. -- Steven Weinberg
Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work. -- Frank Wilczek
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles. -- Leon M. Lederman
I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility. -- David Suchet
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade. -- Richard P. Feynman

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