James Bryant Conant Quotes
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
James Bryant Conant
Quotes to Explore
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
Randall Munroe
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
Marina Abramovic
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My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.
Frank Bruno
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When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
Coco Rocha
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William James
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Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
James Bryant Conant