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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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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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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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 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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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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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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