Jacob Bronowski Quotes - Page 4

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• Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Errors, Ascent

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unity, Deep Thought

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Simple, Men

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 4

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• We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Integrity, Latin, Mean

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

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  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Giving, Want, Violence

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Civilization, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

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  Fate, Men, Revolution

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Appreciation, Saws, Moments

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

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  Ascent, Tribute, Knows

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• 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

  Nature, Science, Technology

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Way, Social, Analysts

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Vocabulary

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• Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Respect, Men, Environment

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• 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

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Reality, Portraits, Appearance

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

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  Kings, Powerful, Hero

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

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  Men, Ascent, Brilliant

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

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  Men, Intuition, Made

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Helping, Problem, Theory

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Discovery, Missing

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Discovery

  "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

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