James Conant Quotes

#1. Autobiographical Interview, ed. James Conant and

Thomas S. Kuhn

#2. Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

James Bryant Conant

#3. It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

James Bryant Conant

#4. If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

David Frost

#5. Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

James Bryant Conant

#6. Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

James Bryant Conant

#7. Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

James Bryant Conant

#8. The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

James Bryant Conant

#9. Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James Bryant Conant

#10. Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

James Bryant Conant

#11. But after a while, you know, I find it better to face in one direction, in front of you, just let the past lay and get on with it,

James Patterson

#12. Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

James Bryant Conant

#13. Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

James Bryant Conant

#14. A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

James Bryant Conant

#15. Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

James Bryant Conant

#16. I never will give up.

Junior Dos Santos

#17. Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

James Bryant Conant

#18. Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired.
"She's fine," Blake growled.
"Clearly, she
"
"Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?"
Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.

Julia Quinn

#19. 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 or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

James Bryant Conant

#20. 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 observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.

James Bryant Conant

#21. 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 direct themselves.

James Bryant Conant

#22. 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

#23. I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.

Anton Chekhov

#24. He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

James Bryant Conant

#25. How could anyone resist. A gypsy, an ex-forest ranger and a couple of retro sales gals." He glanced around at the ice cream sorbet colors of Layla's trailer. "I can imagine us all rolling up to a crime scene in this.

Marg McAlister

#26. The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

Leonard Orr

#27. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

James Bryant Conant

#28. I loove the Backstreet Boys.

Daisy Fuentes