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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.

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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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 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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.
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The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.
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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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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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