All Jacob Bronowski Quotes
- All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I… All
- Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not… Among
- The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And… Ascent
- Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. Fallible
- Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. Acceptance
- Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to… Always Feel
- The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry Inspirational
- To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices… Animal
- The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed… Air
- A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so… Alike
- The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open… Abdicate
- It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science… Accounts
- The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… Accounts
- Certainty ends inquiry. Certainty
- The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel. Angel
- It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well,… Badly
- The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by… Both
- The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. Agriculture
- The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold. Action
- There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers… B F