Jacob Bronowski Quotes

The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as a...

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes ...

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun...

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the re...

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; the...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into n...

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent...

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gif...

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human...

We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the hum...

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to ...

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.