Quotes by Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers’ wax.

Events

Greater

Mystery

[Referring to Fourier’s mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] … Fourier’s great mathematical poem.

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Science

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

Discovery

Hard Work

Science

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Physics

Stamp Collecting

Stamps

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

Energy

Heat

Tendencies

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Doe

Energy

Time

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Figures

Imagination

Theory

Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would “confess” Christ. The “offense” of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

Jesus

Men

Rejection

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

Common Sense

Imagine

Mathematics

Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether.

Dynamics

Reality

Substance

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Atheistic

Atoms

Beautiful

Believe

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Can Not

Common Sense

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Doe

Done

Dream

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Energy

Essentials

Events

Evil

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Facts

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Fit

Force

Form

Formulas

Fourier

Freedom

Future

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Greater

Hard Work

Heat

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Horse

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Imagine

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Quotes by Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers’ wax.

[Referring to Fourier’s mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] … Fourier’s great mathematical poem.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

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

Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether.

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