But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet -this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments. Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.
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.
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…
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…
Dissent is the mark of freedom. - Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
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.
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, …
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…
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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