Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked… — 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
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet… — 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… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our… — 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
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
