The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — 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
“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is… — 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
