Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to C...
A source page for quotes linked to James Bryant Conant.
“A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.”
“Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.”
“Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.”
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
“Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.”
“The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.”
“Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.”