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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .
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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
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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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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
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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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It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.
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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 largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
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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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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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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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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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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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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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A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
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