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Jacob Bronowski

"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."

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"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline."
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
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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."
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"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 find it."
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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
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"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
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