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> [The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-principle-of-tolerance-fixed-once-for-all-the-realization-that/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

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> [The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-principle-of-uncertainty-fixed-once-for-all-the-realisation-that/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

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## Other authors on 1930s

## More by Jacob Bronowski

> [“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/a-man-becomes-creative-whether-he-is-an-artist-or-a-scientist-when-he/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/we-are-all-shot-through-with-enough-motives-to-make-a-massacre-any/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/a-popular-cliche-in-philosophy-says-that-science-is-pure-analysis-or/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-great-poem-and-the-deep-theorem-are-new-to-every-reader-and-yet/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-renaissance-established-the-dignity-of-man-the-industrial/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/one-original-thought-is-worth-the-sum-total-of-human-knowledge/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-richness-of-human-life-is-that-we-have-many-lives-we-live-the/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/einstein-was-a-man-who-could-ask-immensely-simple-questions-and-what/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/revolutions-are-not-made-by-fate-but-by-men/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/i-am-infinitely-saddened-to-find-myself-suddenly-surrounded-in-the/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-most-remarkable-discovery-ever-made-by-scientists-is-science/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/there-are-three-creative-ideas-which-each-in-its-turn-have-been/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/it-is-important-that-students-bring-a-certain-rafamuffin-barefoot/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/the-hand-is-the-cutting-edge-of-the-mind/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

> [To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/to-me-the-most-interesting-thing-about-man-is-that-he-is-an-animal/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

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