Jacob Bronowski Ascent Quotations

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.