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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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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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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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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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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 a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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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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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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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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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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The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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