"Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened……" — 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 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron."
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Robert Andrews Millikan
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23 Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan
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The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the…
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I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in…
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the…
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has…
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as…
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This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion…
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To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.
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Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling,…
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There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom
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The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science…
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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