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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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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 richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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 largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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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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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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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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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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