Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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

  Jacob Bronowski

  Understanding, World, Ascent

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

• Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Book, School, Science

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('The Long Childhood')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 13, 1973.

• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Power, Understanding, Products

• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

• Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

  Jacob Bronowski

  Wisdom, Nature, Men

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Technology

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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