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James Bryant Conant
(26 Mar 1893 - 11 Feb 1978)
American chemist and educator who became a central figure in organizing American science for WW II, including the development of the atomic bomb
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Science Quotes by James Bryant Conant (3)
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
Science and Common Sense (1951), 173.
See also: | Theory (55)
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
— James Bryant Conant
Science and Common Sense (1951), 299-300.
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Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.
— James Bryant Conant
as quoted by Marshall Bates in The Nature of Natural History (1950), p.4
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