The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. – 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 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
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes