“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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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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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.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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