What Quote » Scientist Quotes » Quotes by Jacob Bronowski »

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him in...  
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of ...  
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have ...  
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligen...  
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irr...  
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity...  
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.  
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not becau...  
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why scie...  
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption o...  
Power is the by-product of understanding.  
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. Th...  
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathe...  
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you a...  
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.  
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.  
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjus...  
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.  
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team an...  
The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team an...  
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual i...  
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. T...  
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by ...  
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you...