The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. – Jacob Bronowski
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. – Jacob Bronowski
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski
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
Who has not hoped To outrage an enemys dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. – Jacob Bronowski
It doesnt matter whether youre talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, hell always say Publish and be damned. – Jacob Bronowski
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. – Jacob Bronowski
To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. – Jacob Bronowski
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. – 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
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. – Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. – Jacob Bronowski
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
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. – Jacob Bronowski
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
You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. – Jacob Bronowski
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. – Jacob Bronowski
