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Inspirational Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to…
- The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
- Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
- The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
- The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
- Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
- Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
- Dissent is the mark of freedom.
- Progress is the exploration of our own error.
- I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
- Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
- Power is the by-product of understanding.
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