The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.
Jacob BronowskiWe are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Jacob BronowskiThe central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Jacob Bronowski