Jacob Bronowski Quotes

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

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

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• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

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• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

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• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
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• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
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• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
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• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
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• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

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  • Most
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• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

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  • Good
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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

  

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• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

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• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

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• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

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• Everything about 'UY' is new and fresh, and we are extremely happy at the response from the audiences, as most people are walking out of cinema halls with a smile on their faces.

  

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• Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.

  

  Andrew Yan

• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

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  • Time
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• He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Nature

• 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
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt