Quotes of Lord Kelvin - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to consider in what manner they could possibly be turned to practical account; and so we would not now be able to boast of the wonders done by the electric telegraphs. Indeed, no great law in Natural Philosophy has ever been discovered for its practical implications, but the instances are innumerable of investigations apparently quite useless in this narrow sense of the word which have led to the most valuable results. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ”

- Lord Kelvin
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