Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.
Lord KelvinThere is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
Lord KelvinThe vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.
Lord KelvinThe 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