James Bryant Conant Quotes - Page 2

• Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Advancement, Development, Littles

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• Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Taken, Years, Special

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