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 is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
