Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikanwas an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth22 March 1868
CountryUnited States of America
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two feet theory
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
essentials tasks aspiration
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
ignorance mean humility
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.
education wise opportunity
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.
jobs philosophy responsibility
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 part of the job will be left undone. But fit in we certainly do somehow, else we would not have a sense of our own responsibility. A purely materialistic philosophy is to me the height of unintelligence.
ignorance men two
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.
race law ideas
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.
science two errors
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.
knowledge hands law
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.
onward-and-upward two atheism
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
ideas two minutes
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
men quality intimate
I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.
trying doctrine evolution
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.
atheist real atheism
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.