The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding - Jacob Bronowski
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
- Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserv… - Jacob Bronowski
Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserv…
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 separatio… - Jacob Bronowski
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 separatio…
Dissent is the mark of freedom. - Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
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, … - Jacob Bronowski
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, …
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. - Jacob Bronowski
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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 befor… - 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 befor…
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