3 Quotes by William Thomson Kelvin

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

… Fourier's great mathematical poem ...{Referring to Joseph Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics.}

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.