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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.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.Jacob Bronowski
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We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destinyJacob Bronowski
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.Jacob Bronowski
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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.Jacob Bronowski