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

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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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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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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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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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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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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 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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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