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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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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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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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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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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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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
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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 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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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
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Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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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The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
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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 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, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
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The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
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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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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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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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