“We cannot change our character, we can only enlarge it.”

— Jacob Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science, 1951

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.”

“Progress is the exploration of our own error.”

“Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.”

“All progress means war with Society.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”