Jacob Bronowski Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jacob Bronowski on Wise Famous Quotes.
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
We must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.