If you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.
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Do not be afraid of being free thinkers If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic but helpful to religion.Lord Kelvin
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
Lord Kelvin
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord Kelvin
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
Lord Kelvin
At what time does the dissipation of energy begin.
Lord Kelvin
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Lord Kelvin
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