English - Scientist | January 18, 1908 - August 22, 1974
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski
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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.
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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.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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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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