“The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: science
Tags: science, Jacob Bronowski
Tag: Jacob Bronowski
Man is unique not because he does
“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: science
Tags: science, Jacob Bronowski
You will die but the carbon will
“You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: environmental
Tags: environmental, Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: power
Tags: power, Jacob Bronowski
We are all afraid for our confidence,
“We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: future
Tags: future, Jacob Bronowski
We are all afraid for our confidence,
“We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: imagination
Tags: imagination, Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: politics
Tags: politics, Jacob Bronowski
Science has nothing to be ashamed of
“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: science
Tags: science, Jacob Bronowski
That is the essence of science: ask
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: science
Tags: science, Jacob Bronowski
Man masters nature not by force but
“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Jacob Bronowski
Every animal leaves traces of what it
“Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
— Jacob Bronowski
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Category: alone
Tags: alone, Jacob Bronowski