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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

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

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. – Jacob Bronowski

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environmental
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Jacob Bronowski
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

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Nature
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Jacob Bronowski
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All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the pickets off duty forever. – Ethel Lynn Beers

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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (Romans 7:19 – Bible

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

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