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 civilization imagination
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.
science men imagination
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
art philosophy imagination
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.
men imagination mind
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
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.
men two ideas
A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
mean intelligent knowing
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.