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Ascent Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- 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…
- 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…
- The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
- Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to…
- I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
More Ascent Quotes
- Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh
- The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti
- As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to… — David Steindl-Rast
- The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams
- At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain
- There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon
- Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi