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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Unique, Men

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Age, Art And Science
Jacob Bronowski (1978). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.150, Harvard University Press

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Jacob Bronowski
Beauty, Art, Discovery

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 Bronowski
Art, Science, Animal
Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.15, Yale University Press

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Creation, Art Is
Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Unity, Deep Thought
Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Science, Thinking
Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.23, Faber & Faber

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Work, Different
Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.57, Faber & Faber

The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Science, Discovery
"Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Discovery, Missing
Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Philosophy, Imagination
Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.

Jacob Bronowski
Art, Believe, Personality
Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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