The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob BronowskiWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiMan is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob BronowskiThere is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
Jacob Bronowski