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There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.
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The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
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Every human action goes back in some part to our animal origins; we should be cold and lonely creatures if we were cut off from that blood-stream of life.
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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.
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The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
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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...
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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.
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Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment, but to change it.
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Truth in science is like Everest, an ordering of the facts.
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It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
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Like the voyages of the Spaniards into the fabulous West, Science even at its boldest does the will of history, and in turn helps to determine its movement.
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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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When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.
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Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
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The values of science derive neither from the virtues of its members, nor from the finger-wagging codes of conduct by which every profession reminds itself to be good. They have grown out of the practice of science, because they are the inescapable conditions for its practice.
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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
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There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.
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There never was a great scientist who did not make bold guesses, and there never was a bold man whose guesses were not sometimes wild.
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You will die but the carbon will not...[but] 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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Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
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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 call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
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Science is a great many things... but in the end they all return to this: science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. It need more courage than we have ever found when we have faced our worldly problems.
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Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
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The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
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Jacob Bronowski
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Born:
January 18, 1908
Died:
August 22, 1974
(aged 66)
Bio:
Jacob Bronowski was a British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.
Known for:
The ascent of man (1973)
Science and human values (1956)
The common sense of science (1951)
The identity of man (1965)
William Blake and the age of revolution (1944)
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