English - Scientist | January 18, 1908 - August 22, 1974
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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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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.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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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.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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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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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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