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
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One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
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All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
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The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
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It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual
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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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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.