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 complet….

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

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….

Interest and attention will insure to you an education..

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

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

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

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, name….

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

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but contin….

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

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

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around on ….

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 ….

From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supply….

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 ….

Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval th….

We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of the elements of matter. Wi….

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 ….

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

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….