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

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The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and…
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,…
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields…
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the…
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914…
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth…
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent…
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor…
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward…
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. — Sparky Anderson
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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
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No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field. — Arnold J. Toynbee
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Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. — Tippi Hedren

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