Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Unique, Men

  1979 In The Listener.

• To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.15, Yale University Press

• Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Men, Years

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Lower than the Angels')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 1, 1973.

• The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.

  Jacob Bronowski

  War, Animal, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

• 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

  Animal, Grandchildren, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. October 1968.

• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Funny, Creativity, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

• But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet -this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments. Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Emotional, Animal

• The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Baby, Angel, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin