Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.