No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.
Jacob Bronowski[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
Jacob BronowskiThe progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
Jacob BronowskiThe idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
Jacob BronowskiTo me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
Jacob Bronowski