Top 13 William Thomson Kelvin Quotes
#1. Sir William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin, was an ingenious physicist and engineer, and he said that when you can measure something and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you can't measure it or express it numbers, your knowledge is lacking.
Michael Matthews
#2. I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
Jonathan Tropper
#3. Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.
Jefferson Smith
#5. 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
#6. The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime.
Lynn Cullen
#8. 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
#9. Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
Og Mandino
#11. There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
Douglas Coupland
#12. 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
#13. 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
