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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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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 symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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
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Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.
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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 discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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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 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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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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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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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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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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
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