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

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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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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

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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

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Jacob Bronowski

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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

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