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Jacob Bronowski Quotes
«Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Men
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equally, expressions, man of science, marvelous, plasticity, unique
«Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Knowledge
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edge, Edge of, the edge, uncertainty, unending
«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.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Nature
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cast, failed, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, looked-for, magic spell, Masters, spell, succeeded
«No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Science
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corruption, immune, infection, infections, power politics
«Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Dissent
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a good deal, cut off, dissent, good deal, native, scientist
«Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.»
«The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Pain
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climbs, intoxication, momentary, pervert, The Wish
«Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«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.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Value
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Deep End, fearful, illumination, illuminations, outline, outlines, Outlining, sharpness, unjust