Quote by Jacob Bronowski
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first tea

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. – Jacob Bronowski

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

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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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

Category:
Science
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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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Science
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I can tell you one thing. Ive done this my way. I dont have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it. – John Daly

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We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak. – Sir Eric Geddes

Every time you win, youre reborn; when you lose, you die a little. – George E. Allen

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