Jacob Bronowski

"With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future—not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another."

"The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had long seemed unlike. Faraday did this when he closed the link between electricity and magnetism. Clerk…"

"The Principle of Uncertainty is a bad name. In science, or outside of it, we are not uncertain; our knowledge is merely confined, within a certain tolerance. We should call it the Principle of Toleran…"

"The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goose girl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with somethin…"

"One aim of the physical sciences has been to give an exact picture of the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable. There is …"

"Mass, time, magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has:…"

"Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation."

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."