Quote by Jacob Bronowski
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki

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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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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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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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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I dont know anything about science. – Rachel Weisz

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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years. – Bill Condon

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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. – Michael Behe

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