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We are nature’s unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
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.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
In a parched African landscape like this at Omo, man first put his foot to the ground. That seems a pedestrian way to begin the ascent of man.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
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.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goose girl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. 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.
The Ascent of Man (1973)