James Conant may refer to:
- James Bryant Conant (1893–1978), American chemist and educational administrator
- James F. Conant (born 1958), American philosopher
- James Wallace Conant (1862-1906), American amusement manager for the Schenley Park Casino and the Duquesne Gardens
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or conant:
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“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.”
—James Conant (1893–1978)