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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
Biologist
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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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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
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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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