“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 Copy Share Image
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — 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
“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
