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> [There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/there-is-nothing-in-science-which-teaches-the-origin-of-anything-at/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

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## More by Lord Kelvin

> [Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/christianity-without-the-cross-is-nothing-the-cross-was-the-fitting/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/if-you-study-science-deep-enough-and-long-enough-it-will-force-you-to/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/when-you-are-face-to-face-with-a-difficulty-you-are-up-against-a/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/if-you-can-not-measure-it-you-can-not-improve-it/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/i-often-say-that-when-you-can-measure-what-you-are-speaking-about-and/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/if-you-cannot-measure-it-then-it-is-not-science/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/simplification-of-modes-of-proof-is-not-merely-an-indication-of/)

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> [Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/quaternions-came-from-hamilton-after-his-really-good-work-had-been/)

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> [Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/do-not-imagine-that-mathematics-is-hard-and-crabbed-and-repulsive-to/)

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> [Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/let-nobody-be-afraid-of-true-freedom-of-thought-let-us-be-free-in/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/symmetrical-equations-are-good-in-their-place-but-vector-is-a-useless/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/mathematics-is-the-only-good-metaphysics/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [You know only insofar as you can measure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/you-know-only-insofar-as-you-can-measure/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [Fourier is a mathematical poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/fourier-is-a-mathematical-poem/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

> [When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/when-you-can-measure-what-you-are-speaking-about-and-express-it-in/)

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