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“James was generous with his time to any friend who needed it—as well as to some, like Lawson, who did not! When one friend had eye trouble and could not read, James spent an hour each evening reading out his bookwork for the next day. He bucked up fellow students when they were depressed and on several occasions nursed others who were sick. He helped freshmen who were having trouble with their studies. He also found time to keep up a lively correspondence with his father, Aunt Jane, Lewis Campbell and others.”
― Basil Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

“Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...”
― Basil Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

“THE history of mathematics cannot with certainty be traced back to any school or period before that of the Ionian Greeks.”
― W.W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

“(“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”).”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton