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.
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
To measure is to know.
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.
If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.
To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.
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.
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.
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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