Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

- Lord Kelvin

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

- 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 measur…

- Lord Kelvin

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

- Lord Kelvin

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

- Lord Kelvin

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

- Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

- Lord Kelvin

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

- Lord Kelvin

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

- Lord Kelvin