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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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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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To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature we control her only by understanding her laws.
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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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Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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