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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.
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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.
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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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