The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry - Jacob Bronowski - Quotesmemo.com

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

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Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

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That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution. . . "The Ascent of Man.

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