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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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To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski

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Intelligence
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Jacob Bronowski
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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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I dont understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. Its a pretty gross interference with nature. – Peter Singer

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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