Famous Quotes / Jacob Bronowski
21 Quotations by Jacob Bronowski
- 1. By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. Th ...
- 2. Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in t ...
- 3. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our life ...
- 4. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as ag ...
- 5. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; the ...
- 6. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
- 7. Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...
- 8. No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
- 9. No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
- 10. Power is the by-product of understanding.
- 11. Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal t ...
- 12. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent a ...
- 13. The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, becaus ...
- 14. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- 15. The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
- 16. The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deepe ...
- 17. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the ...
- 18. The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at ...
- 19. To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasur ...
- 20. We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.