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“ Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. ”

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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

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Jacob Bronowski Philosophy Science

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

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Jacob Bronowski Force Knowledge Nature Power Understanding Wisdom

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.

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Jacob Bronowski Creativity Education Learning

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

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