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 completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.
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
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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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