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.
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… - Robert Andrews Millikan
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…
- Robert Andrews Millikan
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 … - Robert Andrews Millikan
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 …
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. - Robert Andrews Millikan
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… - Robert Andrews Millikan
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility a…
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. - Robert Andrews Millikan
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.
Interest and attention will insure to you an education. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward. - Robert Andrews Millikan
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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