William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quote

I want to understand light as well as I can, without introducing things that we understand even less of. That is why I take plain dynamics. I can get a model in plain dynamics; I cannot in electromagnetics.


In: Robert Kargon and Peter Achinstein (eds.), Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics: Historical, and Philosophical Perspectives, Lecture XX (p. 206)


I want to understand light as well as I can, without introducing things that we understand even less of. That is why I take plain dynamics. I can get ...

I want to understand light as well as I can, without introducing things that we understand even less of. That is why I take plain dynamics. I can get ...

I want to understand light as well as I can, without introducing things that we understand even less of. That is why I take plain dynamics. I can get ...

I want to understand light as well as I can, without introducing things that we understand even less of. That is why I take plain dynamics. I can get ...