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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
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Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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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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