William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Quotes by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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Physicist, engineer and mathematician · British · 1824–1907

British physicist, engineer and mathematician (1824–1907)

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

“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”

“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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“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 kin...”
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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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.”
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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“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
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“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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