Science advances, not by the ...

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
 James Bryant Conant

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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
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
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
 James Bryant Conant
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.
 James Bryant Conant
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