The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation... the hand is the cutting edge of the mind
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Jacob Bronowski quoteThe essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Jacob Bronowski quoteScience has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski quote 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.
Jacob Bronowski quote We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski quote 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.
Jacob Bronowski quote Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
Jacob Bronowski quote Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski quote Biography
Polish born mathematician and humanist