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We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in…
Quote byJames Clerk Maxwell · 1831–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics held at Cambridge in October 1871, re-edited by W. D. Niven (2003) in Volume 2 of The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Courier Dover Publications, p. 243..
English (original)
We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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