Best Quotes by Jacob Bronowski (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
  3. 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.
  4. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
  5. There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
  6. 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.
  7. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
  8. Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.
  9. Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
  10. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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