“Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.” IfsMindDoeScientistMarkIndependenceObservationOriginalityDissent Author:Jacob Bronowski
“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.” IfsMenYearsLastsScienceLeftDealsDoubtCuttingTroubleActivityScientistNativeLast YearBe A ManDissent Author:Jacob Bronowski
“Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.” IfsMenYearsBookSchoolScienceUnderstandingCommonProgressEvolutionFiftyAscent Author:Jacob Bronowski
“The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.” IfsMenWantNeedsTryingWarStatesProblemTogetherValuesOrderSocialAnimalFitCostAriseTyrantsNo ProblemJungleAnarchistFree ManSocial OrderTotalitarian State Book:Science and Human Values Source: Science and Human Values
“The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...” IfsHumansHappensLife IsDiesPayEventsThousandHuman LifeRichness Author:Jacob Bronowski
“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.” IfsMenMatterScienceRaceTalkingScientistLike MeBombsPublish Author:Jacob Bronowski
