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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
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Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
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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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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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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 largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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