Help me find a quote..... Please

[MajesticMoose]

I'm looking to find who said something to the order of:

"all of the things worth discovering have already been found"

this was around the turn of the twentieth century

TIA,
m00se

 

[Semimaker]

I know it was reference to physics just before Einstin produced his paper on relativity

 

[MajesticMoose]

ok, but it wasn't eintein who said it was it?

m00se

 

[Semimaker]

No, I am trying to remember who did say it. He was a physicist through.

 

[MajesticMoose]

Ok thanks

 

[realmie]

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
* Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.

 

[MajesticMoose]

thank you sir, you get yourself a big ol' 10.

If you didn't just pull that from memory, could you give me the source of where you got it?

Thank you ever so much,
m00se

Edit: NM, i found a source myself

 

[realmie]

No problem, except I'm not a sir. hehe

 

[Semimaker]

We all learned at some point in our physics education about the famous physicist who, at the turn of last century, pronounced all the important physical laws to be known, and stated that only the chemistry was left to be done.

By Lord Kelvin (of all people)

This is the quote I was looking for, it ahs taken some time to find!

Sorry it took so long!