Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Taylor Compton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American physicist Karl Taylor Compton.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Karl Taylor Compton

Karl Taylor Compton was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world — © Karl Taylor Compton
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world
Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.
No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.
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