“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.”
Quote by Lord Kelvin
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Lord Kelvin
Physicist, born on June 26, 1824, and died on December 17, 1907. Known for his contributions to thermodynamics and the invention of the thermodynamic thermometer. more
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