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Quote by Jacob Bronowski
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. – Jacob Bronowski

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

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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Jacob Bronowski
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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. – Jacob Bronowski

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Astronomy
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Jacob Bronowski
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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

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Learning
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Jacob Bronowski
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Conflict
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The archenemy is the arch stupid! – Thomas Carlyle

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You are at enmity with yourself. – Jacob Boehme

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Conflict

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. – John M. Barrie

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. – Giovani della Casa

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Conflict

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Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. – John Barton

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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. – Francis Macdonald Cornford

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History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. – Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture

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