Jacob Bronowski

Topics: learning, creativity, science

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.

  — Jacob Bronowski

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

  — 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. The shame is ours if we do not make science part of our world...

  — Jacob Bronowski

• Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

  — Jacob Bronowski

• That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

  — Jacob Bronowski