Jacob BronowskiThinkers

Action is the only way the world can be grasped, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye.

The Baby is a mosaic of animal and angel.

The Genius is a man who has two great ideas.

The Hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The Hand is the cutting edge of the mind. (The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.)

Imagination is the act of opening the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike.

Imagination is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures

Man (human) is a puny, slow, awkward, unarmed animal.

Science is grounded in the notion that by asking an impertinent question, you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Sculpture is a sensuous art.

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.