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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
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Poet
Television Presenter
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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 judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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 symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
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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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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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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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 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, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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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 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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