Lord Kelvin Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

• The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jobs, Doe, Debt

• Fourier is a mathematical poem.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Poetry, Fourier

• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

• The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.

  Lord Kelvin

  Knowledge, Science, Soul

  Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883) in "The Life of Lord Kelvin" by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.

• Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

  Lord Kelvin

  Common Sense, Imagine, Mathematics

  "Life of Lord Kelvin". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.

• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Numbers, Metaphysics

• Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Mathematics, Metaphysics

  "The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, (p. 1124), 1910.

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