“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
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — 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… — 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… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — 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
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
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
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
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — 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 discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — 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
