Jacob Bronowski quotes - Page : 2

" Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. " # Science and Scientists # Dissent # America

" It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned. " # Science and Scientists # Writers and Writing # Publishing and Publishers

" 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. " # Science and Scientists # Imagination # Poverty and The Poor

" The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. " # Survival # Justice # Fear

" We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. " # Conflict # Law and Lawyers # Understanding

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

" The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. " # Quotations # Mind # Thoughts and Thinking