The dictionary is wrong – science can be a religion too

[DonCoquixote]

140. the fact that Lord Kelvin could say that

despite the fact that machines were about actually makes my point; Lord Kelvin operated under a bias, which, if you were around during his era, could have been easily disproved. You might have been able to ask him "Sir, what about that glider Cayley made? It is more ironic considering Bayley and he worked in the UK. Yet he said that, with all the influence his stature gave him.

Yes,Lord Kelvin was an individual who thankfully did not stop aeroplanes from being built, although much of the credit could be given to the fact that two bicycle makers in another continent did not care what Kelvin said. Considering that Cayley built the first heavier than air machine that could fly back in 1853, it stands to reason that the UK could have beaten the Wright bothers to the invention of an aeroplane, sadly, despite the progress of Cayley, they did not.

And no, this is not to glorify religion; see my earlier message about how Moorish Spain was much more liberal than modern Islamic governments, it is to simply admit that all of us are human, and humans tend to form biases about anything and everything.