Application Quote by Lord Kelvin

“There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application...”

Lord Kelvin

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Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true…

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If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

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When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

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If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

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I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

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If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

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Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of…

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Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

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But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

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Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application...…

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To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

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Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

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“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

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