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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
Historian
Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
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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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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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 values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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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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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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You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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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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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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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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .
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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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