Jacob Bronowski Quotes

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science is magic that works.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Simply to pit "society" against "nature," "humanity" against the "biosphere," and "reason," "technology," and "science" against less developed, often primitive forms of human interaction with the natural world, prevents us from examining the highly complex differences and divisions within society so necessary to define our problems and their solutions.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

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

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

We understand nature by resisting it.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.