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)
“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that Nobody is any better than he ought to be.... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)