Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
- Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, (1843) (he was never a full Member)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (1850)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London, (1853)
- Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (1854)
- Founding President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, (1857)
- LL.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, (1857)
- Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (1868)
- The Rankine absolute Fahrenheit scale is named in his honour.
- Rankine, a small impact crater near the eastern limb of the Moon, is also named in his honour.
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Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)