"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."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.“
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created."
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