"The scientist who recognizes God knows only the……" — 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 is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working."
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11 Quotes by Arthur Compton
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It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from…
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Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of…
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Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor,…
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Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the…
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For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It…
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The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given…
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If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have…
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The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world…
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