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> [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 universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/the-benefits-of-science-are-not-only-material-ones-the-truths-that/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

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## More by Arthur Compton

> [The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/the-story-is-told-of-lord-kelvin-a-famous-scotch-physicist-of-the/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/those-whose-thinking-is-disciplined-by-science-like-all-others-need-a/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/life-in-the-twentieth-century-undeniably-has-such-richness-joy-and/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/the-benefits-of-science-are-not-only-material-ones-the-truths-that/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/typical-of-the-fundamental-scientific-problems-whose-solution-should/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/science-can-have-no-quarrel-with-a-religion-which-postulates-a-god-to/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/the-scientist-who-recognizes-god-knows-only-the-god-of-newton-to-him/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/at-your-next-breath-each-of-you-will-probably-inhale-half-a-dozen-or/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/yet-is-it-possible-in-terms-of-the-motion-of-atoms-to-explain-how-men/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/yet-is-it-possible-in-terms-of-the-motion-of-atoms-to-explain-how-men-2/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/faith-gives-the-courage-to-live-and-do-scientists-with-their/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

> [Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/twenty-thousand-years-ago-the-family-was-the-social-unit-now-the/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/for-myself-faith-begins-with-a-realization-that-a-supreme/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/it-is-primarily-through-the-growth-of-science-and-technology-that-man/)

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