...The exact quote reads: "1 never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If 1 can make a mechanical model 1 can understand it. As...mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand." Lord Kelvin, Baltimore Lectures (Baltimore: Publication Agency of Johns Hopkins University, 1904),...

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...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...that is why I cannot get the electromagnetic theory. Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1884 Notes of Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory...

...p. 158). Thomson could 'never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. . . . As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the...that is why I cannot get the electromagnetic theory oflight'. (Lectures (1884), quoted in Goldman 1983, p. 196). Maxwell wrote a third paper, attacking...

...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...through, I cannot understand; and that is why I cannot accept the electromagnetic theory. The electromagnetic theory of light (as developed by James Clerk...

...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." A mechanism is a well-defined process where each step of the process leads predictably to the next....

...brain-mind problem. About natural phenomena, Lord Kelvin said, "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 it." This exemplifies the predilection most scientists have for the mechanistic view of the mind —...

...(Weintraub 2oo2, 16) came very close to William Thomson's test for understanding the natural world: "As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand" (Duhem 1981, 71-2, quoting Thomson). From this, Duhem concluded that for the "English mind" to understand...

...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." Lord Kelvin, Baltimore Lectures (Baltimore: Publication Agency of Johns Hopkins University, 1904),...

...model of a thing', he famously declared. 'If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. If I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.'31 Indeed, specifically with reference to light, he suggested 'that the test of "Do we...