All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting. — Lord Kelvin Collecting Copy Share Image
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words. — Lord Kelvin Atheistic Copy Share Image
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. — Lord Kelvin He Copy Share Image
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Atheism Copy Share Image
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin Atheistic Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Biographies 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… — Lord Kelvin Done Copy Share Image
Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality… — Lord Kelvin Dynamics 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 Guarantees 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 Application 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 Atoms Copy Share Image
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never… — Lord Kelvin Creatures 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 Common 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 Abstention 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 Flying machines 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 Absolutes 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 Knowledge 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 Absolutes 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 Bounds Copy Share Image
Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean… — Lord Kelvin Glasses Copy Share Image
Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and… — Lord Kelvin Diffusion 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… — Lord Kelvin Age 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 Natural philosophy Copy Share Image
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. — Lord Kelvin Knowledge Copy Share Image
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — Lord Kelvin Adversity Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Flying machines Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Common Copy Share Image
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin Cost Copy Share Image
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax. — Lord Kelvin Events Copy Share Image
I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude. — Lord Kelvin Feels Copy Share Image
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all. — Lord Kelvin Inspirational Copy Share Image
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