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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot

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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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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. – Jacob Bronowski

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alone
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. – Henry David Thoreau

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Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster

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Learning

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. – Fabrice Luchini

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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. – Will Smith

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. – Mark Twain

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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