James Bryant Conant Quotes

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

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• When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Weird

• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trouble

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Kids
  • True

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Bad
  • Stronger
  • Seasons

• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Alone

• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Up
  • Constitution
  • Physics

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

  

  Gerry Lindgren
  • Running
  • Enough
  • Week

• I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Family

• Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Moral
  • Intellectual
  • Virtues

• Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Play

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

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Ideas
  • Research
  • Procedures