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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
— Jacob Bronowski
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
— Jacob Bronowski
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
— Jacob Bronowski
In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
Power is the by-product of understanding.
— Jacob Bronowski
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
— Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
— Jacob Bronowski
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
— Jacob Bronowski
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
— Jacob Bronowski
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
— Jacob Bronowski
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
— Jacob Bronowski
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
— Jacob Bronowski
It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual
— Jacob Bronowski
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
— Jacob Bronowski
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
— Jacob Bronowski
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
— Jacob Bronowski
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
— Jacob Bronowski
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
— Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
— Jacob Bronowski
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
— Jacob Bronowski
All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
— Jacob Bronowski
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
— Jacob Bronowski
The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
— Jacob Bronowski
The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
Certainty ends inquiry.
— Jacob Bronowski
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Jacob Bronowski
Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.
— Jacob Bronowski
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
— Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
— Jacob Bronowski
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
— Jacob Bronowski
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
— Jacob Bronowski
A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
— Jacob Bronowski
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
— Jacob Bronowski
We must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.
— Jacob Bronowski
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
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.
— Jacob Bronowski
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
— Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
— Jacob Bronowski