Quotes of Jacob Bronowski - somelinesforyou

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

- 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

“ 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

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

- 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

“ This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a recreation of her. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ [When] we practice science (and this is true of all our experience), we are always decoding a part of nature which is not complete. We simply cannot get out of our own finiteness. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ We treat ourselves both as objects of language and as speakers of language, both as objects of the symbolism and as symbols in it. And all the difficult paradoxes which go right back to Greek times and reappear in modern mathematics depend essentially on this. ”

- 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

“ 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

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

- Jacob Bronowski

“ We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ 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

“ The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative… ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative… ”

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski

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

- Jacob Bronowski
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