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If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
— Lord Kelvin
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...
— Lord Kelvin
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
— Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
— Lord Kelvin
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.
— Lord Kelvin
The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on.
— Lord Kelvin
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
— Lord Kelvin
Fourier is a mathematical poem.
— Lord Kelvin
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
— Lord Kelvin
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
— Lord Kelvin
If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.
— Lord Kelvin
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.
— Lord Kelvin
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
— Lord Kelvin
To measure is to know.
— Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
— Lord Kelvin
The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
— Freeman Dyson
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
— Ray Stannard Baker
At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?
— Lord Kelvin
You know only insofar as you can measure.
— Lord Kelvin