“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” KnowsScienceNumbersMathematicsMathMeasurementPhilosophy Of ScienceMath And ScienceMathematics And SciencePhysical ScienceMath EducationNumbers And MathMeasure For MeasureKnowing SomethingMathematical ProofFlying Machines Author: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.” KnowsKindScienceNumbersMathematicsMathMeasurementPhilosophy Of ScienceMath And ScienceMathematics And SciencePhysical ScienceMath EducationNumbers And MathMeasure For MeasureKnowing SomethingFlying Machines Author:Lord Kelvin
“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.” WorldKindHas BeensMadeSoulMatterProblemScienceDesirePurposeTurnsKnowledgeMankindSolutionsMathematicsPropertyPracticalsMathematicalApplicationDiscoveringEarnestPresent TimePhysical ScienceProperties Of Matter Author:Lord Kelvin
“Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.” CommonImagineMathematicsCommon SenseImagine ThatHarsh Author:Lord Kelvin
“Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.” NumbersMathematicsMathMathematicalMetaphysicsMath And ScienceMathematics And ScienceNumbers And MathMath LoveGood MathMath And Love Author:Lord Kelvin
“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.” DoeFactsAbleJobsUniverseMysteryMathematicsDebtGood JobDescribing Author:Lord Kelvin
