To 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 BronowskiThere are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.
Jacob BronowskiScience is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Jacob BronowskiThe act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newtonโs thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the โdiscoveryโ of the laws of gravity.
Jacob Bronowski