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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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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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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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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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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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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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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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The world today is made, it is powered by science and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.
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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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