Re: Kelvin quote

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

> I'm looking for the quote by Kelvin that physics was done.  I may have
> found it here, but unsubstantiated, in the "Of Physics" section in
> <http://members.tripod.com/~zoam/kelvquote.html>; it says, "There is
> nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and
> more precise measurement."  But I'd like a more complete quote in context
> with citation and date.  Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry

Bill Beattie gives us this quote:

  "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have
  all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the
  possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new
  discoveries is exceedingly remote.... Our future discoveries must be
  looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

  -Albert. A. Michelson, speech given in 1894 at the dedication of Ryerson
   Physics Lab, Univ. of Chicago,

Leigh