Science Quotes by Jacob Bronowski

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

— Jacob Bronowski

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Jacob Bronowski

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Jacob Bronowski

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

— Jacob Bronowski

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

— Jacob Bronowski

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for…

— Jacob Bronowski

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art…

— Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist…

— Jacob Bronowski

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature.…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the…

— 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

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and…

— Jacob Bronowski

“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of…

— Jacob Bronowski

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows…

— Jacob Bronowski

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we…

— Jacob Bronowski

The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:…

— Jacob Bronowski

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is…

— Jacob Bronowski

The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in…

— Jacob Bronowski

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how…

— Jacob Bronowski

When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his…

— Jacob Bronowski

[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

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting…

— Jacob Bronowski

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are…

— Jacob Bronowski

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Yet, the principle of uncertainty is a bad name. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is…

— Jacob Bronowski

“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the…

— Jacob Bronowski

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

— Jacob Bronowski

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

— Jacob Bronowski

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked…

— 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