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When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
...Compton believes in no such firm, almighty Divine Intelligence as do Scientists Einstein and Planck. A student of "indeterminism," he says that "natural phenomena do not obey exact laws.'' Physicists have tested the behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously...
Scientist Compton and his colleagues are content that the facts they are amassing about "nature's laws" serve as a key to this world and possibly the next. In deed many persons believe that science, complete in itself, has effectively displaced God. At such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions...
Richard Bulger Schlatter '34 of Fostoria, Ohio is one of the two men recommended for a Rhodes Scholarship by the Massachusetts Committee on Recommendations, it was announced yesterday by Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. and chairman of the Committee. The final choice of the scholars will be made at a meeting of the New England Rhodes Scholarship Committee to be held Monday at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...feature of the relativity theory . . . is the absoluteness of the velocity of light. -Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light...