Jacob Bronowski Quotes - Page 4

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• I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Thinking

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Age, Different

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

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

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• 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

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Civilization, Imagination

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

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• Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Fate, Men, Revolution

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

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• In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Appreciation, Saws, Moments

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• 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

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• Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

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  Ascent, Tribute, Knows

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

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• The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

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  Reality, Portraits, Appearance

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

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• 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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• We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

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  Nature, Science, Vocabulary

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• The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

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  Way, Social, Analysts

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

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• Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

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  Respect, Men, Environment

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

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• Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Work, Different

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Ideas, Two

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

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• The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

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  Kings, Powerful, Hero

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

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• I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

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  Men, Ascent, Brilliant

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

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• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

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  Art, Science, Discovery

  "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

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• Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

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  Men, Intuition, Made

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

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• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

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  Spring, Lying, Home

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

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Two, Giving

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• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

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  Art, Discovery, Missing

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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