Kelvin Quotes by Arthur Compton

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• The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly…
• It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals,…
• Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,…
• Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
• Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design…
• Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life,…
• For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not…
• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture…
• If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
• To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation…
• The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The…

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