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.

James Bryant Conant

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• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • College
  • Baseball
  • Finish

• A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Couple
  • Practice
  • Hours

• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Brilliant
  • Fabulous
  • Gorgeous

• 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.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Real
  • Objects

• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hate
  • Peace
  • Greed

• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Prolongs

• 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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Write
  • Romance

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Spirit
  • Learned
  • Tragedy

• 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.

  

  Andrew Strauss
  • Happy
  • Reason
  • Grief

• It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

  

  Brother Theodore
  • World
  • Right
  • Wrong

• It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

  

  Amelia B. Edwards
  • Egypt
  • Immense
  • Facade

• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  

  George Voinovich
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Liberating

• 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.

  

  George Will
  • Empires
  • Collections
  • Regimes

• Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Believe
  • Knows
  • Audience

• For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Leader

• Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Doubt
  • True Love
  • Abandoned

• I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

  

  will.i.am
  • America
  • Cities
  • Apples

• Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

  

  David Eisenberg
  • Interest
  • Therapy
  • Alternatives

• 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
  • Abandoned
  • Scheme
  • Reconclined