"Every vital organization owes its birth and life……" — James Bryant Conant
"Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea."
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20 Quotes by James Bryant Conant
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Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations,…
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .…
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In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a…
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a…
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Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
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He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
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The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
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Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
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Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country…
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Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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