Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Civilization

Refinement

Want

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

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Wise

From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man’s commercial and industrial needs… The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.

Art

Communication

Night

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

Humility

Ignorance

Mean

I conceive the essential task of religion to be “to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind”.

Aspiration

Essentials

Tasks

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Intimate

Men

Quality

Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man’s fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.

Dream

Philosophy

Taken

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.

Acceptance

Discovery

Science

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Attention

Interest

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

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Philosophy

Responsibility

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Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be “to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind”.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

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