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 Quote

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Jacob Bronowski Quote

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
- Jacob Bronowski Quote

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 Quote

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
- Jacob Bronowski Quote

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

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- Jacob Bronowski Quote

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
- Jacob Bronowski Quote

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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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.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
- 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.
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