“What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.”
Jacob Bronowski Quotes
1908 – 1974
Polish-British mathematician and science writer, creator of the television series "The Ascent of Man".
20 quotesAbout Jacob Bronowski on Wikipedia
“Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.”
“Science is fact and thought giving strength to one another.”
“We do not construct the world from our experiences; we are aware of the world in our experiences.”
“This ability to order things into likes and unlikes is, I think, the foundation of human thought.”
“A good prediction is one which defines its area of uncertainty; a bad prediction ignores it.”
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
“The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.”
“Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect.”
“The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.”
“Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.”
“Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
“All knowledge, all information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.”
“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.”
