Logo
Quote by Jacob Bronowski
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Rules
Author
Jacob Bronowski
Read Quote

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

Category:
Future
Author
Jacob Bronowski
Read Quote

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. – Jacob Bronowski

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. – Tennessee Williams

Category:
Nature

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

Category:
Nature

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

Category:
Nature

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. – Dan Bennett

Category:
Gambling

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. – Phyllis Schlafly

Category:
Education

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. – James Madison

Category:
Government

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. – Mother Theresa

Category:
Career, Vocation