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• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Discovery, Missing

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Agriculture, Village

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Men, Algae

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Children, Inheritance, Action

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• 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 even of the stars.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Stars, Knowledge, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• 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 imaginative values which science has evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Ruins, Shame

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

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  Mind, Culture, Tests

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Males

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• Who has not hoped
  To outrage an enemy's dignity?
  Who has not been swept
  By the wish to hurt?
  And who has not thought that the impersonal world
  Deserves no better than to be destroyed
  By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

  Jacob Bronowski

  Hurt, Enemy, Wish

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• The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Baby, Angel, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

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  Discovery, Order, Giving

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Integrity, Responsibility

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.

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  Art, Believe, Personality

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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• Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Errors, Enough, Ends

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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