Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

• Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

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  Two, Feet, Progress

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• This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Men, Two

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• There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

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  Science, Technology, Men

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• To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

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  Atheist, Real, Atheism

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• Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

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  Two, Feet, Theory

  "The electron and the light-quant from the experimental point of view". Robert Andrews Millikan's Nobel Lecture, May 23, 1924.

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• The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

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  Knowledge, Science, Hands

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1924). “The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties”

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• Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

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  Ignorance, Mean, Humility

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• Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

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  Onward And Upward, Two, Atheism

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• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

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  Ideas, Two, Minutes

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• Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

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  Attention, Interest

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• I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

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  Men, Quality, Intimate

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• The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

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  Trying, Doctrine, Evolution

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• Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

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  Education, Wise, Opportunity

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• Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.

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  Science, Errors, Two

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• Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

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  Civilization, Want, Refinement

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• Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution.

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  Race, Law, Ideas

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• Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

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  Acceptance, Science, Discovery

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• There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

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  Running, Dream, Giving Up

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• Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

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  Mad, Calling, Reason

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

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  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

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  Science, Years, Two

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• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

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  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.

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  Fields, Mechanic, Structure

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• Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.

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  Dream, Philosophy, Taken

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

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  Essentials, Tasks, Aspiration

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