“Progress is the exploration of our own error.”

— Jacob Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (1978)

About Jacob Bronowski

1908 – 1974

Polish-British mathematician and science writer, creator of the television series "The Ascent of Man".

“What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.”

“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.”

“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”