"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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"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
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created."
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"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."
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"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
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