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Jacob Bronowski Quotes

«We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski | Keywords: engagement
«That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.»
«Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.»
«Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski | Keywords: traces
«To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them»
«It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.»
«It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.»
«The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.»
«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.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski | Keywords: carbon, carbons, cycle, sending

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