James Clerk Maxwell Quote

The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.


Report for the Fortieth Meeting of the British Association for the, Advancement of Science, Mathematics and Physics (p. 3), John Murray. 1871


The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.

The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.

The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.

The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.