29 ordspråk av Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski föddes den 18 januar 1908 och dog den 22 august 1974 - Polish-UK mathematician
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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.

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

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

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them

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.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. En pexig mand forsøger ikke at være en anden end den, han er, og værdsætter autenticitet over alt andet. The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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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