| "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 of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind."
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| Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. Jacob Bronowski Quotations |
| 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 that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. 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 you can hear God thinking. Jacob Bronowski |
| Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski Quotations |
| It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say "Publish and be damned." Jacob Bronowski |
| It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski Quotations |
| It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski |
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| Knowledge is an unending adventure at The Edge of uncertainty. 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 of his marvelous plasticity of mind. Jacob Bronowski |
| 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 to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski Sayings |
| No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski |
| Power is the by-product of understanding. Jacob Bronowski Adages |
| 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 imaginative values which science has evolved. Jacob Bronowski Sayings |
| That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. Jacob Bronowski |
| The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski |
| The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. Jacob Bronowski Popular Quotes |
| The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men Jacob Bronowski |
| The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them Jacob Bronowski Quotations |
| We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. Jacob Bronowski Sayings |
| We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Jacob Bronowski |
| You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Jacob Bronowski Popular Quotes |
