[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I… — 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
Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. — 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
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