All Jacob Bronowski Quotes
- 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… Animal
- 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… Conduct
- 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… Art
- 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… Barefoot
- Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. Alone
- No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Corruption
- 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… Cast
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Action
- Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Been
- 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. Character Education
- 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… Activity
- 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… Answers
- Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Adventure
- The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Cutting
- 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… Appeal
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Alone
- In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness. Appreciation
- 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.… Anarchist
- 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. All