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. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.
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 …
- Robert Andrews Millikan
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.
Interest and attention will insure to you an education. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. - Robert Andrews Millikan
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
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