All Jacob Bronowski Quotes
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.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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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.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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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.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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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.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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