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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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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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 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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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.
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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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