About Jacob Bronowski: Jacob Bronowski is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
