Arthur Compton Quotes

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The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

Arthur Compton
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

Arthur Compton
I verily believe that in the advancement of science lies the hope of our civilization.

Arthur Compton
It is hard to think of fissionable materials when fashioned into bombs as being a source of happiness. However this may be, if with such destructive weapons men are to survive, they must grow rapidly in human greatness.

Arthur Compton
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.

Arthur Compton
The spirit of science knows no national or religious boundaries, and it is thus a powerful force for the peace of the world.

Arthur Compton
Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Arthur Compton
We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act like particles, in others like waves. The experiments tell us that we must seize both horns of the dilemma.

Arthur Compton
The reward for using the atom's power towards man's welfare is great and sure. The punishment for its misuse would seem to be death and the destruction of the civilization that has been growing for a thousand years. These are the alternatives that atomic power, as the steel of Daedalus, presents to mankind. We are forced to grow to greater manhood.

Arthur Compton
The Italian Navigator has reached the New World.

Arthur Compton
For those who know science, its inhumanness is a fiction. It serves to satisfy the human hunger for a better understanding of man's place in his world.

Arthur Compton