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If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

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

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

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

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

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

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

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

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

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

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

To measure is to know.

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

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

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

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

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

You know only insofar as you can measure.