Jacob Bronowski Quotes

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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• If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Future
  • Science
  • Crazy

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Science

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Science
  • Fiction

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• Get there first with the most.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • First
  • Get
  • Most

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Most
  • Occasions
  • Kinds

• The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Most

• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Science
  • Creative
  • Will

• We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Possess
  • Fathers

• Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Invent
  • Worrying

• I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Great

• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
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