Jacob Bronowski Quotes

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant…
• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice…
• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions…
• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to…
• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell…
• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
• Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if…
• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you…
• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
• Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human…
• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every…
• Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
• In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
• The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.…
• We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

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