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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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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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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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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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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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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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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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 idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
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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 central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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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 very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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