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Lauded by critics and devoured by countless readers as a companion to the acclaimed PBS series, this work traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize man and make him preeminent among animals. Bronowski's exciting, splendidly illustrated... read more
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“The most powerful drive in <man> is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better.”
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“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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“Of course, it is tempting to close one's eyes to history, and instead to speculate about the roots of war in some possible animal instinct.... But war, organized war, is not a human instinct. It is a highly planned and co-operative form of theft.”
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LOWER THAN ANGELES Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape--he is a shaper of the landscape. In body and in mind he is the explorer of nature, the ubigqitous animal, who did not find but has made his home in every continent.
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- Jacob Bronowski (Author)
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