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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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Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
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I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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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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A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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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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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
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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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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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Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
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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 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 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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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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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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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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