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Jacob Bronowski was an outstanding mathematician born on January 18, 1908, and died on August 22, 1974. He made significant contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly in topology and mathematical physics.

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Famous Jacob Bronowski Quotes

“Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.”

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Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.”

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Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.”

Source: The Ascent of Man

“You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“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.”

Mean Ends Light Values Evil Justice Injustice Deeper Good And Evil Fearful Unjust Illumination Outlines Sharpness Justice And Injustice

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.”

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Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“Certainty ends inquiry.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

About the Author

Born: January 18, 1908
Died: August 22, 1974
Known for: Mathematician
Quotes: 121

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The Ascent of ManRelated source material

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The Common Sense of ScienceRelated source material

The Origins of Knowledge and ImaginationRelated source material

A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural PhilosophyRelated source material

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