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The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the…
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. 241; this has sometimes been misquoted in a way which considerably alters its intent: "in a few .
English (original)
the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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