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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Jacob Bronowski

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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
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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.
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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 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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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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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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 largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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