I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
