Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Jacob Bronowski
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jacob Bronowski
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 18
Died: 1974
Died: August 22
Biologist
Historian
Humanist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Television Presenter
Lodz
Make
Shot
Shots
Violence
Week
Head
Massacre
Give
Massacres
Enough
Motives
Giving
Motive
More quotes by Jacob Bronowski
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
Jacob Bronowski
It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.
Jacob Bronowski
In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
Jacob Bronowski
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.
Jacob Bronowski
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.
Jacob Bronowski
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
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
Jacob Bronowski
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
Jacob Bronowski
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski
All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
Jacob Bronowski
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
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
Jacob Bronowski
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Jacob Bronowski
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
Jacob Bronowski
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
You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
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
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski
The world today is made, it is powered by science and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
Jacob Bronowski
