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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

— James Clerk Maxwell

'Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics', 1871. In W. D. Niven (ed.), The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1890), Vol. 2, 241.

See also: | René Descartes (27) | Mind (125) | Sir Isaac Newton (131) | Philosopher (35)

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