I conceive the essential task of religion to be “to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”
—Robert Andrews Millikan
Topics: Religion
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
Topics: Knowledge
The change from the individual life of the animal to the group life of civilized man, which becomes a life of ever-expanding complexity as our scientific civilization advances, would obviously be impossible unless the individual learned in ever-increasing measure to subordinate his impulses and interests to the furtherance of the group life.
—Robert Andrews Millikan
Topics: Society
War will disappear, like the dinosaur, when changes in world conditions have destroyed its survival value.
—Robert Andrews Millikan
Topics: War
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that your ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
—Robert Andrews Millikan
Topics: Habit, Wisdom
If the growth of modern science has taught anything to religion and to the modern world, it is that the method of progress is the method of evolution, net the method of revolution. Let every man reflect well on these things before he assists in stabbing to death, or in allowing to starve to death, organized religion in the United States.
—Robert Andrews Millikan
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