"Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for……" — Robert Andrews Millikan
"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 well-nigh finished theoretical structure."
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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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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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