Logo
Quote by Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got hi

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Science
Author
Jacob Bronowski
Read Quote

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

Category:
Astronomy
Author
Jacob Bronowski
Read Quote

To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Intelligence
Author
Jacob Bronowski
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Science
category

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. – James D. Watson

Category:
Science

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

Category:
Science

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

Category:
Science

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Category:
Science

Random Quotes

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. – Anne Sexton

Category:
Beer

My music must reflect whatevers going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is Im becoming. – Shania Twain

Category:
Music

Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? – Martin Farquhar Tupper

Category:
Wisdom

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. Youll note theres no science in it. Its a kind of grim fantasy. – Octavia Butler

Category:
Science