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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

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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
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Likenesses
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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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 values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
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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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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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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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 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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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 central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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