William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quote

I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.


Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics, and the Wave Theory of, Light (p. 270), C.J. Clay & Sons. 1904


I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.

I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.

I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.

I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I understand it.