Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Giving, Achievement

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

• We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Giving, Want, Violence

• All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Philosophy, Two, Giving

• The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Discovery, Order, Giving

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

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