Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowskiwas a British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. Of Polish-Jewish origin, he is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 September 1908
art creation art-is
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
inspirational cutting hands
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
doors tragedy scientist
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
thinking shadow our-actions
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?
art science thinking
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.
discovery order giving
The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
running simple law
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.
acceptance thinking rejection
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
art age art-and-science
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
eye men religion
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
giving want violence
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.
pay events life-is
The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.
liberty mark dissent
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
science discovery scientist
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.