“The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.” Has BeensRealityChangedAppearancePainterExplanationRootedPortraitsPhysicist Book:Science and Human Values Source: Science and Human Values
“There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.” Has BeensIdeasOrderTurnsThreeCausesChanceCreativeCreative Ideas Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.” Has BeensCountryStatesGovernmentMightScienceChurchAccountsIndependentCorruptionSeparationImmuneInfectionPower And CorruptionPower Corruption Author:Jacob Bronowski
“One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.” WorldGivingHas BeensScienceCenturyMaterialsProveAchievementAimPhysicsTwentieth CenturyUnattainableMaterial WorldPhysical Science Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man
“Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?” ThinkingHas BeensActionTaughtSucceedShadowOur Actions Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.” ThinkingMenShouldLooksHas BeensFaithCultureBeliefPrinciplesAbsolutesCertaintyUncertaintyIronyFixedGermanyConceptionCrucialTyrantsElsewhereConfrontationMonstrous1930sRealisationAscentDespotsAbsolute CertaintyThrowback Author:Jacob Bronowski
“The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.” ThinkingMenHas BeensAirBreatheAtomsSooner Or LaterLungsMoses Author:Jacob Bronowski
