James Bryant Conant Quotes

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• Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts…
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always…
• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have…
• A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified…
• Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
• Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
• He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
• The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
• Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
• Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without…
• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
• 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 to…
• 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,…
• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
• Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
• 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…
• ... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

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