William Thomson (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) Scientist ; 1st Baron Kelvin, he is often referred to simply as Lord Kelvin.

Sourced

• "Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherialization of common sense."
  • Quoted in S P Thompson's Life of Lord Kelvin (London 1943 )

Attributed

• "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
  • Spoken in 1895

• "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement."
  • Spoken in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science , 1900

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science, whatever the matter may be."

External Links

• Lord Kelvin Online