The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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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.Jacob Bronowski
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.
Jacob Bronowski
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
Jacob Bronowski
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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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .
Jacob Bronowski
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