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
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
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. — Lord Kelvin Knowledge 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
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
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
“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
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
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
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from… — Lord Kelvin Aviation Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Animal Copy Share Image
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax. — Lord Kelvin Events 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 Figures Copy Share Image
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible. — Lord Kelvin Aeroplanes Copy Share Image
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. — Lord Kelvin Atheism 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 Everlasting Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an… — Lord Kelvin Analysis 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 Energy 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 Application Copy Share Image
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it… — Lord Kelvin Atheistic Copy Share Image
We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own.… — Lord Kelvin Believe 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 Believe 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 Acceptance Copy Share Image
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