To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski Read Quote
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. Jacob Bronowski Read 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 Read Quote
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. Jacob Bronowski Read Quote
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. Jacob Bronowski Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jacob Bronowski Read Quote
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. Jacob Bronowski Read Quote
