Ascent Quote by Jacob Bronowski

“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

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

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

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

“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That”

— Jacob Bronowski

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

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

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

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

— Jacob Bronowski

“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

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

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