Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Believe
Forces
Confidence
Dynamical
Physical
Directive
Works
Electrical
Influence
Forced
Force
Admit
Science
Absolutes
Power
Absolute
More quotes by Lord Kelvin
Fourier is a mathematical poem.
Lord Kelvin
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord Kelvin
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin
To measure is to know.
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
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
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 have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.
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
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.
Lord Kelvin
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
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
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
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
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
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
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.
Lord Kelvin
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.
Lord Kelvin
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.
Lord Kelvin
I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.
Lord Kelvin