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(1) BOOKS about the relation between science and religion are apt to be heavy, but this reproach certainly cannot be levelled against Prof. Millikan's little volume. He gives in a few brilliant pages a sketch of the remarkable change which has come over the modern physical interpretation of the universe. He has been well placed to observe this change, having been, as he tells us, in direct touch with the older masters of the classical physics and having watched step by step and participated in the revolution which was initiated by Röntgen's discovery of the X-rays. He attended Röntgen's first demonstration on Christmas Eve, 1895: “As I listened and as the world listened, we all began to see that the nineteenth century physicists had taken themselves a little too seriously, that we had not come quite as near sounding the depths of the universe, even in the matter of fundamental physical principles, as we thought we had”(p. 10).
(1) Evolution in Science and Religion.
By Robert Andrews Millikan. (Published on the Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation.) Pp. v + 95. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1927.) 4s. 6d. net.
(2) Science and Human Progress.
(Halley Stewart Lectures, 1926.) By Sir Oliver Lodge. Pp. 187. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1927.) 4s. 6d. net.
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R., E. Science and Religion. Nature 120, 435–436 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120435a0
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