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
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in… — 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
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. — 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
