From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
