Jacob Bronowski Quotes about Nature

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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Jacob Bronowski

Wisdom, Nature, Men

Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

Jacob Bronowski

Notebook, Nature, Science

Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Science, Technology

Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Science, Vocabulary