29 ordspråk av Jacob Bronowski
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.
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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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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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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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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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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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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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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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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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