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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.
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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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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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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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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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