William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense

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There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement

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Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature