Jacob Bronowski quotes

" No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. " # Science and Scientists # Politicians and Politics # Power

" To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Pleasure # Love

" The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. " # Action # Mind # Thoughts and Thinking

" Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. " # Dissent # Conformity # Minorities

" The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. " # Mind

" 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 over nature. " # Nature # Science and Scientists # Failure

" The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. " # Winners and Winning # Teams and Teamwork # Flowers

" Power is the by-product of understanding. " # Power

" By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Age and Aging # Politicians and Politics

" That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. " # Science and Scientists # Questions # Literary Criticism