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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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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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Mark
Freedom
Thought
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Dissent
Mind
Originality
Observation
Independence

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.
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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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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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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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We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.
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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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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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 human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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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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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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