Quotes by James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant

… scientific research is compounded of … empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Ideas

Research

Science

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.

Facts

Science

Stubborn

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

Harvard

Study

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

Behavior

Irritated

Surface

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Courage

Funny Inspirational

Motivational

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

Agreement

Democracy

Individual Differences

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Diversity

Loyalty

Society

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

Accomplishment

Honesty

Integrity

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

Aristocracy

Calling

Excellence

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

Forgotten

Has Beens

Left

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Quotes by James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant

… scientific research is compounded of … empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

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.

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

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.

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

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

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

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

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