Quote by Jacob Bronowski
To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectua

To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski

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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – 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. – Jacob Bronowski

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For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 is involved or not (whatever is involved might mean). – Douglas Hofstadter

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Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. – John McCarthy

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Ive always felt, in all my books, that theres a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. – Studs Terkel

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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. – Sri Aurobindo

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