Feels Quote 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…

— 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…

— Arthur Compton

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

— 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…

— 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…

— Arthur Compton

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Arthur Compton