Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things. (Jacob Bronowski)

Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.

Jacob Bronowski

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