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then_there_was: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
— Jacob Bronowski
supersimple1: “Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”
Jacob Bronowski
Flowersofsin: JACOB BRONOWSKI - The Tragedy of Mankind
MikeFul93443838: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician and philosopher.
welfordwrites: A genius is someone who has two great ideas. Jacob Bronowski
Amy31129057: No science is immune to the infection of politics and corruption of power
~Jacob Bronowski
omer_guxholli: From "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski
AlgolHesham11: Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.,Jacob Bronowski,Adventure, Uncertainty, Edge ,
arjunkhemani: In the language of science, it is a stable society.”
— Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values, Chapter 3: The Sense of Human Dignity
arjunkhemani: "This is a stability which no dogmatic society can have." — Jacob Bronowski
HB_mutungi: "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." ― Jacob Bronowski
Cox_A_R: Replace Match of the Day with a re-run of Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man for a few weeks is my considered take.
nesoron: I remember sitting patiently through the entire series… another equally enthralling series was Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man”.
Gigamyst9489: Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.,Jacob Bronowski, Science & Human Values,art, nature, science,
KarenMo06514375: A powerful segment: Jacob Bronowski commenting on science as well as his visit to Auschwitz:
neurosocialself: ‘Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known …
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.’
Jacob Bronowski
DavidCranmerUn1: in San Diego, California, Robert Malone conducted studies on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology.
Jacob Bronowski headed the projects division of UNESCO. Bronowski wrote poetry and had a deep affinity with William Blake. From 1950 to 1963 he worked for the
JohnSte40163279: Jacob Bronowski: "I am infinitely saddened", he said, "to find myself suddenly surrounded by a sense of a terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge into - into what? I, too, sense a world unravelling, "A huge agglomeration of upset," as Ted Hughes says in Tales from Ovid.
arjunkhemani: — Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
daviszlahz: The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon PB3XWYB
MikeFul93443838: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician, poet, historian, biologist, playwright, inventor, philosopher, literary critic, and chess player.
arjunkhemani: "There is no more threatening and no more degrading doctrine than the fancy that somehow we may shelve the responsibility for making the decisions of our society by passing it to a few scientists armored with a special magic."
— Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values
justlearning_in: Science is the acceptance of what works
and the rejection of what does not.
That needs more courage than we might think.
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- JACOB BRONOWSKI
Mathematician & Biologist
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DavidCranmerUn1: consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick.
Leo Szilard spent his last years as a fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California, which he had helped to create.
Leo Szilard lived in a bungalow on the property of
ShekharGurav: “To imagine means to make images and move them about in one’s head in new arrangements.”
Jacob Bronowski
devpoint_one: The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon
arisbe__: "At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world." -- Jacob Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science (1951)
Hirch12: "Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" - Jacob Bronowski Nanu?: Latest Mean Annual Temperature Data Show Tokyo Has Been Cooling For Decades!
ullionweb: NoTricksZone: "Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" – Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany – by Pierre L. Gosselin
ChrisStringer65: Jacob Bronowski’s moving words (1975) on the limits of science, knowledge and power
kubernite: Day at Night: Jacob Bronowski
BrianRoemmele: This is professor Jacob Bronowski and this video is important.
josephluria: “We are always looking for a language in science which mimics or mirrors the structure of reality.”
Jacob Bronowski (The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, 1978)
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nynyms_: Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.”
Jacob Bronowski
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MikeFul93443838: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician, poet, historian, biologist, playwright, inventor, philosopher, literary critic, and chess player.
BrianRoemmele: “This is my Mark, this is man”—Dr. Jacob Bronowski
For our ancient faith the cave was not a place of hazing or ritual as much as it was a place to prepare us for the unseen world we would face.
In the darkness—the wise guided the young.
One family.
BrianRoemmele: “This is my Mark, this is man”—Dr. Jacob Bronowski
For our ancient family the cave was not a place of hazing or ritual as much as it was a place to prepare us for the unseen world we would face.
In the darkness—the wise guided the young.
One family.
BrianRoemmele: “The tragedy of mankind”
This is professor Jacob Bronowski and this video is important.
TimothySandefur: And here:
poonammeriteju1: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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TimothySandefur: Jacob Bronowski is my favorite unjustly neglected intellectual.
lcby: "...This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz... this is where people were turned into numbers..."
A powerful brief video worthy of your attention today , presented by the polymath and humanist
☆ Jacob Bronowski.
skbakken: "Knowledge...is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
~Jacob Bronowski
LockeyGavin: Very wise for Parkinson to have a recording of his interview with Jacob Bronowski BEFORE his death.
HannahArendt00: “Ask an impertinent question and you are on your way to a pertinent answer.”
- Jacob Bronowski
YogiScottL: "A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature."
~ Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
kubernite: Jacob Bronowski - Invention of the Arch
praashok: I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
— Jacob Bronowski
welfordwrites: A genius is someone who has two great ideas. Jacob Bronowski
neurosocialself: It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
MacCocktail: "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
― Jacob Bronowski (born this day, January 18, 1908)
TheObjStd: How does one reach young minds and inspire them to explore deeply and ascend the great heights of human achievement? Jacob Bronowksi, born January 18, 1908, knew how.
TOKtweet: "What we think about the world is not what the world is, but is what the human animal sees of the world" (Jacob Bronowski, 1908-74).
ThamesPylons623: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician, poet, historian, biologist, playwright, humanist, inventor, philosopher, literary critic, and chess player.
CelebBirthdayUK: January 18
Today is the anniversary of the birth of
A. A. Milne
Arthur Ransome
Thomas Sopwith
Oliver Hardy
Cary Grant
Jacob Bronowski
Danny Kaye
Ray Dolby
David Bellamy
Raymond Briggs
David Ruffin
Paul Angelis
Gilles Villeneuve
bgreene: Among my favorite quotes: "In every age there is a turning point, a new way of seeing and asserting the coherence of the world." --Jacob Bronowski, born OTD 1908.
HBurpday: January 18
Today is the anniversary of the birth of
A. A. Milne (1882)
Arthur Ransome (1884)
Thomas Sopwith (1888)
Oliver Hardy (1892)
Cary Grant (1904)
Jacob Bronowski (1908)
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TimothySandefur: Happy birthday to Jacob Bronowski. (Actually it’s not his birthday, but the day he chose to celebrate as his birthday.) check out one of my favorite segments from his series “The Ascent of Man”:
TimothySandefur: And read my book about his life!
ChrisZolnierek: It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- Jacob Bronowski
IMAGINEzine: On 1/18, IMAGINE celebrates the birthday of Jacob Bronowski, Polish-British mathematician, philosopher, and author who was best known for his 1973 BBC TV series and accompanying book The Ascent of Man, which led to his regard as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals".
IMAGINEzine: Jacob Bronowski wrote the books, "The Reach of Imagination" (1967), The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (1978), and the essay "The Imaginative Mind in Art" (in The Visionary Eye, 1978)
IMAGINEzine: Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer
SRCHicks: Sandefur is always worth listening to. I wrote a review of his fine book on Jacob Bronowski, one of the great 20th-century humanists:
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The world is made of people who never just get into the
first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show JACOB BRONOWSKI (1908 - 1974)
horne_tooke: No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
ThamesPylons623: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician, poet, historian, biologist, playwright, humanist, inventor, philosopher, literary critic, and chess player.
OliverDavis1900: “Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” – Jacob Bronowski
walterhpierce2: This quote by Jacob Bronowski fits intoTesting, Verification and Experimentation category. I am also considering putting this quote in my Fear, Courage, and Action category. To see more classified quote-poster collections go to:
TrueQuotation: However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. — Jacob Bronowski
IamRealAR: Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
-Jacob Bronowski
~IamRealAR
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OrpheusinAsda: The Dooley’s pull out at the last minute again as Brotherhood of Man perform Jacob Bronowski’s Ascent of Man through the medium of Dan Dare.
doing_math: Read how an Irish policeman convinced Jacob Bronowski that the intellect will not perish
(This is the end of the book Bronowski: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination):
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kelldada: There is no absolute knowledge.
And those who claim it,
whether they are scientists
or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
Jacob Bronowski
TrueQuotation: I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. — Jacob Bronowski
michael_dalleh: " 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 "
Jacob BRONOWSKI
Images captured by Michael Dalleh
Nimritfan02: NIMRIT YOU ROCK
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.:-Jacob Bronowski, Science & Human Values..
MikeFul93443838: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician, poet, historian, biologist, and playwright.
RTLifeQuotes: The essence of science; ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to a pertinent answer. - Jacob Bronowski
Avebluemoonsong: Who am I to belittle civilizations of Egypt, of India, of China, even of Europe at the Middle Ages? And yet by one test they all fail: they limit the freedom of imagination of young.
-•••-•--Jacob Bronowski
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akurathG: STAY RESILIENT NIMRIT
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding - Jacob Bronowski..
ricard_sole: "Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known (...). Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible". Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
ThibaultDiP: 2/ This 13-part documentary series is presented by Jacob Bronowski, who is a mathematician, scientist, writer, and "historian of ideas".
His intellectual curiosity and deep philosophy of science burst through the screen. And alone makes it well worth the watch.
arisbe__: Jacob Bronowski, "Ten Poems for Christmas" (Ambit Magazine, 1963)
arisbe__: Bronowski Christmas Cards 1951 & 1953-1957
sanchak74: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
"The Ascent of Man" - a must read, I read it every 2 years
deepakpatkar738: Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
JACOB BRONOWSKI, 1908 TO 1974
SeamusOrrLuaise: Me. Always. It's how true science happens.
"Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" Jacob Bronowski
rjber15: "There is no absolute knowledge. Those who claim it, scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility. That is the human condition; and that is what quantum physics says. I mean that literally." ~Jacob Bronowski
nobilitet: Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Jacob Bronowski (Mathematician, Biologist)
earthinspace: Jacob Bronowski said it wasn't done by gas or science, so cancel him too? "Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some 4 million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance." (5:18)
SophiaCycles: ‘The creative mind is a mind that looks for unexpected likenesses’, wrote Jacob Bronowski. ‘This is not a mechanical procedure, and I believe that it engages the whole personality in science as in the arts.~Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things
Water0123456789: And that distance can only be closed, if knowledge sites at the homes and heads of people with no ambition to control others, and not up at the seats of power.
•••-•-•-••••-•Jacob Bronowski
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Water0123456789: For blockheads, maybe understand difference between people with people, people with government is not easy, maybe not, they just want to be evil for gain money power
Jacob Bronowski give the people a new perspective, not only just at science, but at civilization.
KenGardner11: Related question: how much of the alleged "consensus" behind the climate change cult is grounded in a system that rewards proponents with grants and professional rewards while punishing the people who ask what Jacob Bronowski called "impertinent questions" that challenged it?
MikeFul93443838: Jacob Bronowski ( 1908 - 1974 )
Polish-British mathematician and philosopher.
DavidCranmerUn1: among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, known today as the March of Dimes, provided the initial funding.
After his PhD, Inder Verma conducted his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Nobel
commonor_garden: The PS3 we use as a DVD player has finally given up the ghost but it took the first disc of The Ascent of Man with it.
I couldn’t have that, I’ve managed to rescue Jacob Bronowski from his plastic cage. New DVD player arrives tomorrow.
