Lord Kelvin Quotes About Energy

• At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

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  Lord Kelvin

  2087

• It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

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  Lord Kelvin

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips, (2005 edition, p. 1093), 1910.

  2378

• 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

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  Lord Kelvin

  1167

• Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

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  Lord Kelvin

  473

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