All Jacob Bronowski Quotes
- We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… Act
- To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. Act
- Progress is the exploration of our own error. Error
- A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day. Day
- I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. Ascent
- The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery… Act
- Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding Force
- This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of… Absolute
- Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. Art
- There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. Absolute
- Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from… Analogies
- Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's. Bought
- Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. Answer
- Power is the by-product of understanding. Inspirational
- Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school… Book
- The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. Discovery
- It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot… Action
- That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. Answer
- The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. First Team
- The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. Climbs