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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why

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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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. – 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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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams

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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

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