If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“ Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model,… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.” — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image