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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
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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 discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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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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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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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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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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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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