Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. — Lord Kelvin Horses Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Courses Copy Share Image
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.” — Lord Kelvin Science 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 Accumulation 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude. — Lord Kelvin Feels 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 Accurate Copy Share Image
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. — Lord Kelvin Collecting Copy Share Image
To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness. — Lord Kelvin Essentials Copy Share Image
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all. — Lord Kelvin Inspirational Copy Share Image
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it. — Lord Kelvin Form Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Connected Copy Share Image
