Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lord Kelvin
Age: 83 †
Born: 1824
Born: June 26
Died: 1907
Died: December 17
Astronomer
Mathematician
Physicist
Politician
Scientist
University Teacher
Belfast
Ireland
The Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin
William Thomson
William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson
Innovation
Skeptic
Machines
Predictions
Air
Aviation
Computer
Proven
Creativity
Physics
Forecasts
Impossible
Dumb
Heavier
Science
Flying
Predicting
Silly
Prophetic
More quotes by Lord Kelvin
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.
Lord Kelvin
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 measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
Lord Kelvin
To measure is to know.
Lord Kelvin
Fourier is a mathematical poem.
Lord Kelvin
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
Lord Kelvin
You know only insofar as you can measure.
Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
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
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.
Lord Kelvin
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.
Lord Kelvin
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.
Lord Kelvin
We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.
Lord Kelvin
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.
Lord Kelvin
There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.
Lord Kelvin
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.
Lord Kelvin
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
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
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.
Lord Kelvin
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord Kelvin
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.
Lord Kelvin
