"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."

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Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.11, Courier Corporation

James Clerk Maxwell

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“Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.”
“For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.”
“One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.”
“[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.”
“I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.”
“Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.”
“All I want to do is change the world.”
“I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,”

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