If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

- Arthur Compton

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

- Arthur Compton

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

- Arthur Compton

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which hav…

- Arthur Compton

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me t…

- Arthur Compton

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such ac…

- Arthur Compton

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is…

- Arthur Compton

The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God i…

- Arthur Compton

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

- Arthur Compton