Ascent Quote by Jacob Bronowski Download Open image “Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.” — Jacob Bronowski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascent Decision making Edges Errors Inspirational Judgment Science
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have… — Robert Pollack Copy Share Image
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
