"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."

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Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive

James Clerk Maxwell

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“I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.”
“In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.”
“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
“I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.”

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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.”
“I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.”
“Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.”

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