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... - James Clerk Maxwell
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. - James Clerk Maxwell
By the study of Boltzmann I have been unable to understand him. He could not understand me on account of my shortness, and his length was and is an equal stumbling block to me. - James Clerk Maxwell