Quotes by : William Thomson

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance....

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

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

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

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about....