Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Age

• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Character, Loss, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

• Según los criterios mundanos de la vida pública, todos los eruditos en su trabajo son, por supuesto, extrañamente virtuosos. No hacen afirmaciones descabelladas, no engañan, no intentan persuadir a toda costa, no apelan ni a los prejuicios ni a la autoridad, a menudo son francos sobre su ignorancia, sus disputas son bastante decorosas, no confunden lo que se discute con la raza, la política, el sexo o la edad, escuchan pacientemente a los jóvenes y a los viejos que lo saben todo. Éstas son las virtudes generales de la erudición, y son peculiarmente las virtudes de la ciencia.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sexo, Ignorancia, Raza

• The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Believe, Personality

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.99, Faber & Faber

• That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Age, Different

• Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Age, Art And Science

  Jacob Bronowski (1978). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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