The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his….

Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They ….

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each pers….

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such ac….

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd..

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which hav….

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is….

The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God i….

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the p….

Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomi….

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me t….

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams..

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole..

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath..

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children..