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Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is an...
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Source: In The...
That is the...
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent...
The world can...
The world can only be grasp by action, not by contemplation . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the...
The hand is...
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The world is...
The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower...
Sooner or later...
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has...
To me, being...
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in...
That series of...
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --...
Every animal leaves...
Every animal leaves traces of what he was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
It doesn't matter...
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a...
Knowledge is not...
Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are,...
Einstein was a...
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are...
The values by...
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in...
By the worldly...
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make...
Has there ever...
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our...