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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
Historian
Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
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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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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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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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Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
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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 symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
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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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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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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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It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.
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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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Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
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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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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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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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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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