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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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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 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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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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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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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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