We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiThe child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
Jacob BronowskiThe central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Jacob BronowskiBut nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet -this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments. Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.
Jacob Bronowski