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Knowledge 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…
- Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
- The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very…
- All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I…
- 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 paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and…
- The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
- We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge…
- This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of…
- There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
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