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“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”

Jacob Bronowski · Society

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Jacob Bronowski

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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Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science

Jacob Bronowski

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.

Science

Jacob Bronowski

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.

Environmental