Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
Lord KelvinWe only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.
Lord KelvinThere is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
Lord KelvinAccurate 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