Top 22 William Thomson 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. They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.
John Fowles
#3. 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
#4. This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
Holly Black
#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. Don't worry if you don't accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing - even the very thing that tried to kill us.
Kamand Kojouri
#7. You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#8. I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself [so] I love to see people happy.
Tom Hardy
#10. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kevin O'Leary
#11. I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
Brooke Burke
#12. 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
#14. Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
William Julius Wilson
#15. The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
Tony Snow
#17. But Cynings isn't the only country in the world, is it? Don't be so narrow-minded. Don't be content to stay at the base of the tree. Go to the top and see a wider view.
Cameron W. Kobes
#18. 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
#20. My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are already living near the fringes of acceptable conduct.
Anthony Bourdain
#21. Women put guys through tests all the time.
J. B. Smoove
#22. To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Prince Charles
