Jacob Bronowski Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

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

“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.”

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