Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: March 22, 1868 - December 19, 1953
Birthday: March 22
Death: December 19
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.
source: Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub
topic: Leader, Progress, Important, Applied Science
