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Ideas of Lord Kelvin (Wm Thomson), by Text

[British, 1824 - 1907, Professor of Physics at Glasgow University.]

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p.16

22363

You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers

p.28

20644

Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature