James Bryant Conant Quotes

   1893 - 1978

US educator, President of Harvard University (1933^53).

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Behold the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks its neck out.

Favourite saying of Harvard's president, James B. Conant. Quoted in  James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

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There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure sciencethat of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

James Bryant Conant
— 1945  Letter to the NewYork Times,13  Aug.

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It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

James Bryant Conant
— 1950  Of  Washington. Letter to Bernard Baruch, Feb. Quoted in James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

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A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

James Bryant Conant
— Quoted in Time, 29 Sep1986.

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