Jacob Bronowski
Scientist
1908-01-18
Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
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The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.
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We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
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We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
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The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.
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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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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.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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