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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
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One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
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The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
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A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
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