73 Quotes by Lord Kelvin

You know only insofar as you can measure.

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...

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces,

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.