"Just like a turtle, we only make progress……" — James Bryant Conant
"Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out."
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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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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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There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them…
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