I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature.… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share
![“[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question…” quote by Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/62d/jacob-bronowski-3073_answers_john-dalton-was-a-man-of-regular-habits_2200360.jpg)
