Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

— Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski Quotes

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

— Jacob Bronowski

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

— Jacob Bronowski

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

— Jacob Bronowski

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

— Jacob Bronowski

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

— Jacob Bronowski

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

— 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

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

— Jacob Bronowski

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

— 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

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

— Jacob Bronowski

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

— Jacob Bronowski

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

— Jacob Bronowski

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

— Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

— Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker’s.

— Jacob Bronowski

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

— Jacob Bronowski

Power is the by-product of understanding.

— 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

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

— Jacob Bronowski
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