The most powerful drive in the ascent of 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.
Jacob Bronowski
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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.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
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People are stupid, because of watching the same over and over and over and over - which goes as far as I can tell hell.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.
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We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.
I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.