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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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 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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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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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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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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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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