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From Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages…
- The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.…
- The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
- The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
- Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from…
- Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school…
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