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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

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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
Poet
Television Presenter
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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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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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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 central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
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We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
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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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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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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 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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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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