“Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.”
William Thomson“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin“Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.”
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin