William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quotes

#1. Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

#2. The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

#3. No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter are slow, heavy and stupid.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

#5. 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.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

#6. The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin