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The most wonderful discovery ...

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

No science is immune to the i...

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

It is vain to say human being...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

That is the essence of scienc...

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

The world is full of people w...

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

Dissent is the native activit...

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 108 quotes

We gain our ends only with th...

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

Every animal leaves traces of...

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

You will die but the carbon w...

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 108 quotes

Einstein was a man who could ...

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 108 quotes

To me, being an intellectual ...

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

The world can only be grasped...

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

Science has nothing to be ash...

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 108 quotes

Man masters nature not by for...

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 108 quotes

It is important that students...

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 108 quotes

Man is unique not because he d...

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 108 quotes

Every animal leaves traces of ...

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

The most wonderful discovery m...

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

Knowledge is an unending adven...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski 108 quotes

You will die but the carbon wi...

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 108 quotes

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