There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.
Robert Andrews MillikanThe pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.
Robert Andrews MillikanI conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
Robert Andrews MillikanIndeed, 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.
Robert Andrews Millikan