“Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.” MaySaidBeautifulResultsModernInstrumentsPhysicsAnalysisTreatmentIndispensableTheoremsModern PhysicsFourier Book:Elements of Natural Philosophy Source: Elements of Natural Philosophy
“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.” MayPersonsScienceNatureNaturalInterestingSecretGainsConcernedDeeperInsightPrioritiesInsignificance Author:Lord Kelvin
“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. 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; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.” KnowsFirstsKindMayMatterNumbersQualityStepsPrinciplesSubjectsStageEssentialsMethodConnectedMeasurementMeasuringReckoningPhysical ScienceMeasure For MeasureFlying Machines Author:Lord Kelvin
“We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.” WorldBelieveMayHas BeensSeemsWalkingMoonVisionariesStar Gazing Author:Lord Kelvin
