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James Fraser Maxwell was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City and Watford.

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“The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.”
— On a Dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the motion of a system of invariable form about a fixed point, with some suggestions as to the Earth’s motion, read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh (20 April 1857); published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXI, Part IV (1857).
“I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.”
— Letter to C. H. Cay, (Jan 5,1865) as quoted in , 44(8), page 470, 1976-08
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...”
— A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), Preface, p. xiii.
“Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.”
— Maxwell, in a letter to William Thomson, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 (1990), p. 245.
“Aye, I suppose I could stay up that late.”
— Maxwell, on being told on his arrival at Cambridge University that there would be a compulsory 6 a.m. church service, as quoted in Spice in Science : The Best of Science Funnies (2006) by K. Krishna Murty
“In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.”
— Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 159

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Notable quotes

“The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.”
— On a Dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the motion of a system of invariable form about a fixed point, with some suggestions as to the Earth’s motion, read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh (20 April 1857); published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXI, Part IV (1857).
“I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.”
— Letter to C. H. Cay, (Jan 5,1865) as quoted in , 44(8), page 470, 1976-08
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...”
— A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), Preface, p. xiii.
“Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.”
— Maxwell, in a letter to William Thomson, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 (1990), p. 245.
“Aye, I suppose I could stay up that late.”
— Maxwell, on being told on his arrival at Cambridge University that there would be a compulsory 6 a.m. church service, as quoted in Spice in Science : The Best of Science Funnies (2006) by K. Krishna Murty
“In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.”
— Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 159

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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