Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Lord Kelvin[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.
Lord KelvinThe more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord KelvinWhen you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
Lord Kelvin