Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikanwas an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth22 March 1868
CountryUnited States of America
conducive depths fullness humility knowledge means understanding
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
atheist real atheism
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.
onward-and-upward two atheism
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
science two errors
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.
knowledge hands law
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
science years two
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.
science men technology
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom