In the last fifty years physics has exerted a more powerful beneficial influence on the intellectual, economic and social life of the world than has been exerted in a comparable time by any other agency in history. Its influence has far exceeded that of wars, political alignment or social theories.


Science (supplement), Volume 84, Number 10, 1936

Karl Taylor Compton Quotes

In the last fifty years physics has exerted a more powerful beneficial influence on the intellectual, economic and social life of the world than has...

In the last fifty years physics has exerted a more powerful beneficial influence on the intellectual, economic and social life of the world than has...

In the last fifty years physics has exerted a more powerful beneficial influence on the intellectual, economic and social life of the world than has...

In the last fifty years physics has exerted a more powerful beneficial influence on the intellectual, economic and social life of the world than has...