Robert Andrews Millikan

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

— Robert Andrews Millikan

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

— Robert Andrews Millikan

From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the…

— Robert Andrews Millikan