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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.
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