“Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?” MenEnoughShowsBigsFunnyMistakeIgnorancePureMaking Mistakes Author:Holbrook Jackson
“Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.” MenSelfLife IsFailingSorrowElementsFourthCalmnessUncontrollable Author:Holbrook Jackson
“Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe” UniverseEnergyProduceMaterialsUniversalTendenciesHeatExhaustionIndestructibleDiffusionDissipationPotential Energy Author:Lord Kelvin
“There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.” SoulMistakeGreaterPracticalsApplication Author:Lord Kelvin
“Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.” ProblemFacesBoundsHonourReincarnationEverlastingVow 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
“I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.” FeelsSatisfactionFormulasMagnitude Author:Lord Kelvin
“I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.” NeedsEarthSoundAbsolutesRangeContributionBiologySpeculationTheoreticalMaintenanceDynamicsNegationCommencement Author:Lord Kelvin