William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quote

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years, and that word is failure. Lord Kelvin's Jubilee


Nature, Volume 54 173181 1896


One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years, and...

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years, and...

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years, and...

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years, and...