Jacob Bronowski Quotes


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. - Jacob Bronowski


We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. - Jacob Bronowski


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


To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. - Jacob Bronowski


The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. - 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


The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. - 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


The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. - Jacob Bronowski


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