Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. Jacob Bronowski More Quotes by Jacob Bronowski More Quotes From Jacob Bronowski We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny. Jacob Bronowski latin integrity mean The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity. Jacob Bronowski moon discovery thinking The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way. Jacob Bronowski self men way Revolutions are not made by fate but by men. Jacob Bronowski fate revolution men It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half. Jacob Bronowski perspective sunday two Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts. Jacob Bronowski leafs notebook facts Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding Jacob Bronowski nature wisdom men The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars. Jacob Bronowski stars men knowledge A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature. Jacob Bronowski imagination philosophy art Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. Jacob Bronowski ascent errors science Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself. Jacob Bronowski algae men sex The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. Jacob Bronowski simple running ideas One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought. Jacob Bronowski original-thought originals humans The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . Jacob Bronowski home spring lying The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things. Jacob Bronowski portraits appearance reality The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art. Jacob Bronowski discovery science art Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment. Jacob Bronowski respect environment men Who has not hoped Jacob Bronowski hurt wish enemy It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned. Jacob Bronowski race men science 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 imagination men civilization
