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Science Quotes by Arthur Compton
- It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed…
- 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 and build a…
- Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for…
- The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and…
- 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 also of the…
- The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science…
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