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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

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.

Lord Kelvin
Math, Science, Numbers
Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin
Math, Science, Numbers
Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin
Math, Numbers, Metaphysics

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

Lord Kelvin
Math, Poetry, Fourier

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