"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."

Nature, Science, Force, Magic

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Explore more quotes by Jacob Bronowski

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."

Politics, Power, Science, Corruption

"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."

Art, Science, Man, Mind

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Irreverence, Question, Students, Worship

"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."

Nature, Science, Force, Magic

"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Question,

"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."

Nature, Imagination, Civilization, Confidence

"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Mind,

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."

Knowledge, Adventure, Uncertainty

"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."

Work, God, Answers, Man

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

Action, Will

Exlpore more Nature quotes

"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Life, River, Water, Earth

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Nature, Clear Skies, Rain, Uncertainty, Hope

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Spring, Joy, Change, Life

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature, Philosophy, Truth, Life

"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Nature, Cycle, Life, Death

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Nature, Spring, Hope, Beauty

"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature, Universe, Evil

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Nature, Infinity, Light, Reflection

"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Nature, Childhood, Animals, Fear

"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Nature, Sun, Morning, Effort, Laziness