It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — 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
“And Mendeleev’s guesses showed that induction is a more subtle process in the hands of a scientist than Bacon and other philosophers… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“I have chosen to talk about one of the founder fathers of twentieth-century physics, Niels Bohr, because in both these respects he… — 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
“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
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 Image
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 Image
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