William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quotes

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

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

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.