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
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. — 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
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — 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
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — 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
“Yet, the principle of uncertainty is a bad name. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. — 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
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