In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant…

- Karl Taylor Compton

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors w…

- Karl Taylor Compton

More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the…

- Karl Taylor Compton

Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science ma…

- Karl Taylor Compton

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering w…

- Karl Taylor Compton