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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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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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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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The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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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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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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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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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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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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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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The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.
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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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