Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowskiwas a British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. Of Polish-Jewish origin, he is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 September 1908
men age ascent
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.
ascent tribute knows
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
men ascent brilliant
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
science errors ascent
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
understanding world ascent
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
errors ascent judgment
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
unique men animal
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
art unique men
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.
action cannot english-scientist human ought vain
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.
english-scientist full miss people prizes
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
english-scientist essence pertinent science
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
discovery english-scientist science scientists wonderful
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
climbs english-scientist minds momentary ordinary wish
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
mind independence doe
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.