Jacob bronowski

Power is the by-product of understanding.

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.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

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...

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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...

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

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.