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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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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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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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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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 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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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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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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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