Jacob Bronowski Quotes

I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

Jacob Bronowski

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Doing

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Look

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Time
  • Science

• As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

  

  Fred Kavli
  • Science
  • Imagine
  • Benefits

• I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Business

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb