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Books by Lord Kelvin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139"Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense."
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
~William Thomson (June 26, 1824–December 17, 1907)
#books #science #physics
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