Quotes by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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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 canno — 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 — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in th — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin