James Bryant Conant Citas

• He aquí la tortuga. Sólo progresa cuando saca el cuello.

  James Bryant Conant

  Motivational, Courage, Funny Inspirational

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Forgotten, Has Beens, Left

  Diary as freshman at Harvard College (1910 - 1911)

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

  James Bryant Conant

  Education, Country, Teacher

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• La democracia es un pequeño núcleo duro de acuerdo común, rodeado de una rica variedad de diferencias individuales.

  James Bryant Conant

  Agreement, Individual Differences, Democracy

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Turtles, Progress, Sticks

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• Que un hombre viva o muera en vano sólo puede medirse por la forma en que afronta sus propios problemas, por el éxito o el fracaso del conflicto interior dentro de su propia alma. Y de esto nadie puede saber salvo Dios.

  James Bryant Conant

  Men, Soul, Way

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Study, Harvard

  Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.

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• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Development, Facts

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• 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

  Science, Venture, Tests

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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 heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

  James Bryant Conant

  Men, Leaving, Genius

  Letter to the Editor, N.Y. Times, 13 Aug. 1945

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• Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Men, Progressive

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• Un comportamiento que parece superficialmente correcto pero que es intrínsecamente corrupto siempre irrita a quienes ven por debajo de la superficie.

  James Bryant Conant

  Irritated, Behavior, Surface

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Tyrants, Political, Magic

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• Cada vocación honesta, cada camino de la vida, tiene su propia élite, su propia aristocracia basada en la excelencia del rendimiento. . . . Siempre existirá el falso esnobismo que intenta situar una vocación por encima de otra. Sólo serás miembro de la aristocracia en el sentido americano si tus logros y tu integridad te hacen merecedor de este apelativo.

  James Bryant Conant

  Honesty, Integrity, Accomplishment

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• 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

  Science, Facts, Stubborn

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• Toda organización vital debe su nacimiento y su vida a una idea emocionante y audaz.

  James Bryant Conant

  Inspirational, Business, Organization

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• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

  James Bryant Conant

  Country, Educational, Science

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• 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

  Loyalty, Diversity, Society

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Excellence, Aristocracy, Calling

  James Bryant Conant (1942). “Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to College Students”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Ideas, Research

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• He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

  James Bryant Conant

  Walks, University, Hallowed Ground

  Quoted in Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary, ed. David McCord (1936)

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

  James Bryant Conant

  Men, Soldier, Dignity

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• Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Degrees, Problem

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• Parece como si estuviera en un manicomio, pero nunca estoy seguro de quién es el encargado y quién el recluso.

  James Bryant Conant

  Lunatic Asylums, Inmates, Seems

  1950 Of Washington. Letter to Bernard Baruch, Feb. Quoted in James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

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