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Jacob Bronowski Quotes


A Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book.

Here are some famous quotes by Jacob Bronowski. 

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.

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We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

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We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one has made the Ascent of Man.