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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
— James Bryant Conant
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
— James Bryant Conant
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
— James Bryant Conant
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
— James Bryant Conant
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
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
— James Bryant Conant
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
— Thomas More
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
— James Bryant Conant
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
— James Bryant Conant
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
— James Bryant Conant
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
— George Jean Nathan
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
— James Bryant Conant
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
— James Bryant Conant
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
— Ambrose Bierce
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
— James Bryant Conant
Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
— Finley Peter Dunne
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
— Heather O'Neill
What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say.
— Frederick Lenz
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
— James Bryant Conant
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
— James Bryant Conant
