The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.


The scientific papers of James Clark Maxwell (ed. 1965)

James Clerk Maxwell Quotes

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,...

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,...

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,...

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,...