While Kelvin claimed that "when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind", it is interesting to note that he also maintained that "I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism."

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