Jacob Bronowski

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

— Jacob Bronowski

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

— Jacob Bronowski

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

— Jacob Bronowski

Power is the by-product of understanding.

— Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

— Jacob Bronowski

Certainty ends inquiry.

— Jacob Bronowski

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

— Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

— Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

— Jacob Bronowski

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

— Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

— Jacob Bronowski

A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

— 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

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the…

— Jacob Bronowski

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind…

— Jacob Bronowski

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

— Jacob Bronowski

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that…

— Jacob Bronowski

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale…

— Jacob Bronowski

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.”

— 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

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination…

— Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last…

— 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

Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has…

— Jacob Bronowski

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that…

— Jacob Bronowski

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep…

— Jacob Bronowski

There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act…

— Jacob Bronowski

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and…

— 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

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

— Jacob Bronowski

“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is…

— Jacob Bronowski

“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens…

— Jacob Bronowski

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed…

— Jacob Bronowski

“It has a special biological character. Let us take one simple, down-to-earth criterion for that: we are the only species in which…

— Jacob Bronowski

The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to…

— Jacob Bronowski

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for…

— Jacob Bronowski

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

— Jacob Bronowski