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Human Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human…
- We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every…
- But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
- 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…
- The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly…
- Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:…
- 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…
- 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 human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
- It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
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