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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
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Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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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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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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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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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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 most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.
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You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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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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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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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
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It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.
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