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...S]] (9 September 1852 – 30 March 1914) was an English physicist, known for the [[Poynting vector]] and [[w:Poynting's theorem|Poynting's theorem]]. ...ding medium contains at least a part of the energy, and that it is capable of transferring it from point to point. ...

...nsive histories in the English language for the development of the methods of calculus. === ''A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations'' (1810) === ...

...t lesson in [[quantum mechanics]], and in a very real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books. ** J. C. Ward, ''Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist'' (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004). ...

...for our acceptance of such theories without endorsing our acknowledgement of a beauty that exhilarates and a profundity that entrances us.]] ...eelings of intellectual satisfaction or of a persuasive desire and a sense of personal responsibility.]] ...

...dral, Cambridgeshire. He was also professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. ...rejudice and make the University answer her character as the loving mother of good learning and science. ...

...ety of London, most famous for [[w:Taylor's theorem|Taylor's theorem]] and the [[w:Taylor series|Taylor series]]. ...ine Discourse upon any Subject, without [[understanding]] the Propriety of the [[Language]] wrote in; and to me it seems no less ridiculous for one to pre ...

...Perga|Apollonius of Perga]], [[Aristarchus of Samos]], and [[Archimedes]] of Syracuse into English. === ''Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra'' (1885) === ...

...s [[character]] until you had examined the [[evidence]] on both sides with the utmost [[patience]] and care.]] ...seem to say, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die?" Far from it; on the contrary, I say, "Let us take [[hands]] and [[help]], for this day we are a ...

...tion of light]] (1725–1728), and the [[w:astronomical nutation|nutation of the Earth's axis]] (1728–1748). ...of the Clock in the Evening, and farthest South when it came about Six in the Morning.<!--pp.643-644--> ...

[[Image:JBS Haldane, circa 1914.jpg |thumb|right|My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ''can'' s ...be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. ...

...ng]] may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call ''[[intuition]]'' and ''[[ingenuity]]''.] ...r|general-purpose computer]]. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and [[artificial intelligence]]. ...

...ike the [[animals]]. Then something happened which unleashed the [[power]] of our [[imagination]]. We [[learned]] to [[talk]] and we learned to [[listen] ...tical Cosmology|Centre for Theoretical Cosmology]] within the [[University of Cambridge]]. ...

...ow by Mary Beale.jpg|thumb|[[Virtue]] is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one [[night]] when we are [[asleep]], or regard it not; but a del ...alculus}}; in particular, for the discovery of the {{w|fundamental theorem of calculus}}. ...

...for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. ...tion]]'', ''[[The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell]]'', ''[[Theory of Heat]]'', ...

...they [[w:Developmental biology|develop]], although some undergo a process of [[metamorphosis]] later on in their [[life|lives]]. All animals are [[w:het ...ls around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. [[John Ruskin]] ]] ...