Creative Quotations from . . .
Robert Millikan
(1868-1953) born on
Mar 22
US physicist. He studied elementary electronic charge and photoelectric effects; won Nobel Prize, 1923.
         
   
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F
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.

R
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
A
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
N
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and than is always conducive to humility and reverence.
K
Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In "Words of Wisdom," by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1989.
R: In "20,000 Quips and Quotes" by Evan Esar, 1968.
A: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N: In "Complete Toastmaster," by Herbert V. Prochnow, 1960.
K: "Time, Matter and Value."
 

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