Quote by Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got hi

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

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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. – Jacob Bronowski

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Future
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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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Violence
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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. – Jacob Bronowski

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Rules
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The thing about science is that its an accurate picture of the world. – Jonathan Miller

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Science

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science? From what Ive seen, its not likely. – Tim Ferriss

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Science

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Science

Observations always involve theory. – Edwin Hubble

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Science

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