James C. Maxwell Quotes

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

Temporality and the transformation of energy are two very important aspects in my work.

Death is a word in the dictionary. I don't believe in that word. I think the most appropriate word is 'departure' because we are energy and you can't create or destroy energy, you can only change its form.

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

Energy is an eternal delight.

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Energy is the master resource, because energy enables us to convert one material into another. As natural scientists continue to learn more about the transformation of materials from one form to another with the aid of energy, energy will be even more important.