Author: Jacob Bronowski

Quotes

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

- Jacob Bronowski

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

- Jacob Bronowski

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.

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

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

- Jacob Bronowski

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

- Jacob Bronowski

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

- Jacob Bronowski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

- Jacob Bronowski

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Jacob Bronowski

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

- Jacob Bronowski

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