The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge… — 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
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
