Each molecule... throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the double royal cubit of the temple of Karnac.


Quoted in Frederick Soddy, The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom, Chapter X (p. 215)

James Clerk Maxwell Quotes

Each molecule... throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at...

Each molecule... throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at...

Each molecule... throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at...

Each molecule... throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at...