Famous quotes containing the words maxwell and/or wrote:
“Gin a body meet a body
Flyin through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?”
—James Clerk Maxwell (18311879)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)