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Science 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…
- No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
- 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…
- 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…
- I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I…
- No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring…
- [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…
- When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than…
- The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.
- I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think…
- Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which…
- 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…
- Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
- Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
- 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…
- The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
- 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 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 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.…
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov