"Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure."

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Robert Andrews Millikan

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“Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.”
“My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.”
“Disappointment requires adequate planning.”
“Every book is a box of ideas.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “The Danger Box”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.
“I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.”
“There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.”
“He turns not back who is bound to a star.”
“What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.”

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