"My idea of an educated person is one……" — Robert Andrews Millikan
"My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes."
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Robert Andrews Millikan
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23 Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan has 23 quotes on this site.
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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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Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating…
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We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of…
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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long…
— John Adams
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is…
— Denis Diderot
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step…
— Maria Montessori
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't…
— Max Beerbohm
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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Many can argue - not many converse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of…
— Yoshida Kenko
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love,…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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