Science & Human Values Quotes

“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values”
― Jacob Bronowski, Science & Human Values

“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
― Jacob Bronowski, Science & Human Values

“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.”
― Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values

“power is the by-product of understanding. So the Greeks said that Orpheus played the lyre with such sympathy that wild beasts were tamed by the hand on the strings. They did not suggest that he got this gift by setting out to be a lion tamer.”
― Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values

“The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.”
― Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values