“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.””
Quotes by William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
“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; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of , whatever the matter may be.””
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, was a prominent British physicist and engineer whose work laid the foundations for modern thermodynamics and electrical engineering. Born in Belfast, he demonstr...