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Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect.

— Jacob Bronowski Science and Human Values (1956)

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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

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

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Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature — or more exactly, in the variety of our experience.

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We are nature’s unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.

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In science and in art and in self-knowledge we explore and move constantly by turning to the world of sense to ask, Is this so?

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