Robert Andrews Millikan quotes

Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist, renowned for measuring the elementary electric charge through the famous oil-drop experiment. This work provided crucial evidence for the existence of the electron as a fundamental particle. He also made significant contributions to the study of the photoelectric effect and received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here are 7 of his quotes:

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Robert Andrews Millikan

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.

Robert Andrews Millikan

The California Institute of Technology (CalTech) rose to prominence when Robert A. Millikan was called to Pasadena in 1921 as new university president. Millikan was known for his far-reaching ambitions both as a physicist and as a science manager. He put CalTech on the map as a top university by inviting the world's most renowned scientists for guest lectures and by hiring internationally distinguished scientists to new chairs. With theoretical physicist Paul Epstein, a pupil of Sommerfeld's, Millikan brought modern atomic physics to CalTech in the early 1920s, and with Kármán, he pursued the same strategy a few years later in order to lure the best available aerodynamicist from Europe to Pasadena.

Robert Andrews Millikan

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

Robert Andrews Millikan

Cosmic rays.

Robert Andrews Millikan