James Bryant Conant Quotes

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

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Knowledge

• If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Treat
  • Medical

• The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Kind

• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge

• If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

  

  Alan Kay
  • World
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• 378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Knowledge

• That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Knowledge
  • Space

• Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg
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• As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Nature
  • Bee

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • Prejudice
  • Scientists