The opinion seems to have got abroad, that, in a few years, all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.
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Maxwell, James Clerk. Inaugural address as Cavendish professor. Oct. 1871, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.
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