Animal Quotes by Jacob Bronowski

8 Animal quotes by Jacob Bronowski

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Bronowski sees animals as teachers of wonder, and these eight succinct lines blend his scientific insight with philosophical depth.

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To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every…

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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…

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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,…

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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he…

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The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to…

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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has…

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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

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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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“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That”

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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

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“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge…

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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…

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There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of…

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It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but…

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

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