Purpose Quotes by James Bryant Conant

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

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

— James Bryant Conant

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

— James Bryant Conant

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

— James Bryant Conant

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

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

— James Bryant Conant

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

— James Bryant Conant

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

— James Bryant Conant

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

— James Bryant Conant

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

— James Bryant Conant

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

— James Bryant Conant

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