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Robert Andrews Millikan
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“Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.”
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1923 Nobel Prize lecture
“In 1832 the English astronomer Airy, in making a report to the British Association on the state of astronomical science throughout the world, remarked that he was unable to say anything about America astronomy because, so far as he knew, no public observatory existed in the United States. It was in the 1840's that the Cincinnati Observatory, the Naval Observatory in Washington, and the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were founded—the three pioneer institutions in a development that has continued with increasing acceleration ever since.”
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the origin of the "penetrating rays" was still uncertain, Dr. Russell Otis and myself in the summer of 1923 went to the top of Pike's Peak for the sake of making absorption experiments upon these radiation at the highest altitude to which we could carry large quantities of absorbing materials. For if the rays were not of cosmic origin they did not need to be more penetrating than are the gamma rays from radioactive materials, while if they were of cosmic origin the sounding balloon experiments of Bowen and myself had shown that they must be very much harder (more penetrating) than anybody had thus far assumed. What was needed was absorption experiments to determine just what sort of rays they actually were.”
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source