Quotes by Lord Kelvin

• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
• In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
• Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
• The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
• The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
• The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.