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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.

Jacob Bronowski

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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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Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.
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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 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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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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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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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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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 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 central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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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