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by lkbm 1763 days ago
Lord Kelvin famously said there were just two "clouds" in left to physics—two mysteries remaining to explain. Those two mysteries let to relativity and quantum mechanics.

There's also this famous quote that is frequently mis-attributed to Kelvin: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement".[0] (I'm not sure who actually said it.)

[0] https://www.quora.com/Which-19th-century-physicist-famously-...