James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conantwas an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, working on the development of poison gases. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919, and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929. He researched the physical structures of natural products, particularly chlorophyll, and he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 March 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.