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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

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. – Jacob Bronowski

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

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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean. – G. K. Chesterton

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There are three principles in a mans being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I dont do what I say. – Martin Buber

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. – Proverb

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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, its a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

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