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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

Jacob Bronowski

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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
Historian
Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
Lodz
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Men
Peaks
Ascent

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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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