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… — 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
