We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.
Jacob BronowskiSatire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
Jacob BronowskiIt is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.
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