About Robert Andrews Millikan: Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Prize in Physics for the year ...
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
