Jacob Bronowski Quotes

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Done
  • Game
  • Control

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Nature
  • Football
  • Sports

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Nature
  • Design
  • Inspired

• A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Lives
  • Worries

• Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Hero
  • Classified

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding