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William Thomson (Physicist)

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 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.

— William Thomson knowledge

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon the practical applications of science. 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 earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.

— William Thomson life

came fromafter his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

— William Thomson work

I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the a

— William Thomson faith

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but '' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

— William Thomson light

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

— William Thomson mathematics

has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.

— William Thomson science

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

— William Thomson happiness

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

— William Thomson you

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