James Bryant Conant Quotes
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.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
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Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
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We're at a deadlock with a couple of people in the Senate who know everything, ... So we have to do what we have to do to make this work and kick the can down the road for another fight.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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It was in Spain that my generation learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.
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It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
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It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
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Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.
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What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.
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I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
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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.
