William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quotes
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Forty years ago I asked Liebig walking somewhere in the country, if he believed that the grass and flowers which we saw around us grew by mere chemical forces; he answered, "NO, no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them grew by mere chemical force."
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded on the very sure assumption that the material of our present solid earth all round its surface was at one time a white-hot liquid.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
When you call a thing mysterious, all that means is that you don't understand it.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Paradoxes have no place in science. Their removal is the substitution of true for false statements and thoughts.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
The stream lines are as represented in the annexed diagram, in which the region of translational velocity greater than wave-propagational velocity is separated from the region of translational velocity less than wave-propagational velocity by a cat's-eye border pattern of elliptic-whirls.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin