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Subject:Re: Misquoted Lord Kelvin
From:Joseph Fortino
Date:Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:36:42 -0800

everything starts at ZERO.. hehe or wait -0

-----Original Message-----
>From: Pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
>Sent: Mar 10, 2006 8:28 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Misquoted Lord Kelvin
>
>Full quote:
>
>"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 meager and
>unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have
>scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science."
>
>Sorry about that.