Bronowski Knowledge Quotes

#1. In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.

Jacob Bronowski

#2. I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

DJ Quik

#3. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

#4. We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Jacob Bronowski

#5. I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

John Sandford

#6. Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

St. Vincent

#7. Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Jacob Bronowski

#8. Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

Jeremy Sisto

#9. One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Jacob Bronowski

#10. Monastic incarceration is castration.

Victor Hugo

#11. We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.

Katharine Weymouth

#12. Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Les Brown

#13. Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

John Dryden

#14. There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Jacob Bronowski

#15. They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hillary Clinton might actually thaw out.

Jay Leno

#16. Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Jacob Bronowski

#17. I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Daphne Guinness

#18. The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Jacob Bronowski

#19. Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. 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

#20. The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

Jacob Bronowski

#21. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

John Milton

#22. Oh, I'm going to kill Mundungus Fletcher!

J.K. Rowling

#23. We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

Jacob Bronowski