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Man Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- 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…
- Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
- But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
- A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle