That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. – Jacob Bronowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – 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
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