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Jacob Bronowski
English Scientist
Born: Jan 18, 1908
Died: Aug 22, 1974
Man Nature Science Understanding World You
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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 question it. Jacob Bronowski
Important Barefoot Worship Students Studies Known Question Irreverence Certain Bring Here
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge Edge Uncertainty Adventure Unending
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. Jacob Bronowski
Art Man Science Mind Marvelous He Equally Because Does His Unique Expressions
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski
Politics Science Corruption Power Immune Infection
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. Jacob Bronowski
Alone Man Animal Every He Traces Leaves Created
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski
Me Pleasure About Taking Knowing Issues Intellectual Being Mean Them Means
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. Jacob Bronowski
Good Man Will Trouble Doubt Dissent Be A Man Him Deal Got Scientist Years Off Left Native Whether Cut Good Deal Activity Last
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Jacob Bronowski
Life Environmental Time You Animal Plant Soil Will Once Once More More Animal Life Take Return Does End Up Die Sending May Again Cycle Carbon Career
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. Jacob Bronowski
Nature Understanding Control Our Laws Only Ends Gain Her
Power is the by-product of understanding. Jacob Bronowski
Power Understanding By-Product
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Jacob Bronowski
Mind Edge Hand Cutting
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski
Society Dissent Our Several Lifetime Been Died Which Conformity Ever

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