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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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 symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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