When You Can Measure What You Are

The Vortex Theory [of The Atom] Is Only A Dream. Itself Unproven, It Can Prove Nothing, And Any Speculations Founded Upon It Are Mere Dreams About Dreams.

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.

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.

At What Time Does The Dissipation Of Energy Begin?

Although Mechanical Energy Is Indestructible, There Is A Universal Tendency To Its Dissipation, Which Produces Throughout The System A Gradual Augmentation And Diffusion Of Heat, Cessation Of Motion And Exhaustion Of The Potential Energy Of The Material Universe