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In Physical Science A First Essential Step In The Direction Of Learning Any Subject Is To Find Principles Of Numerical Reckoning And Practicable Methods For Measuring Some Quality Connected With It. 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; It May Be The Beginning Of Knowledge, But You Have Scarcely In Your Thoughts Advanced To The Stage Of Science, Whatever The Matter May Be.

The More Thoroughly I Conduct Scientific Research, The More I Believe That Science Excludes Atheism.

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.

I Can Never Satisfy Myself Until I Can Make A Mechanical Model Of A Thing. If I Can Make A Mechanical Model, I Can Understand It. As Long As I Cannot Make A Mechanical Model All The Way Through I Cannot Understand.

Heavier-than-air Flying Machines Are Impossible.