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:
“Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.”
—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)