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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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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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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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The world today is made, it is powered by science and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
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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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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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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 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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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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