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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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 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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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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Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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 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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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 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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The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
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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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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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The world today is made, it is powered by science and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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