Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the… — James Bryant Conant Diversity Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten. — James Bryant Conant Education Copy Share Image
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. — James Bryant Conant Education 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… — James Bryant Conant Advancement 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 Excellence Copy Share Image
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant Abstract Copy Share Image
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. — James Bryant Conant Hallowed ground Copy Share Image
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. — James Bryant Conant Agreement Copy Share Image
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. — James Bryant Conant Behavior Copy Share Image
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. — James Bryant Conant Ifs 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… — James Bryant Conant Abandoned 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… — James Bryant Conant Administrators 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… — James Bryant Conant Concepts Copy Share Image
“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant Advancement 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 Accomplishment Copy Share Image
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one.… — James Bryant Conant Analysis Copy Share Image
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James Bryant Conant Progress Copy Share Image
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant Accounts Copy Share Image
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the… — James Bryant Conant Asylums Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Appreciated Copy Share Image
Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the… — James Bryant Conant Conflict Copy Share Image
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts. — James Bryant Conant Accumulation Copy Share Image
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. — James Bryant Conant Accumulation Copy Share Image
