41. Jacob Bronowski Quote jacob bronowski Quote. From the Knowledge or Certainty , an episode fromthe 1973 BBC series The Ascent of Man , transcribed by Evan Hunt http://www.ronrecord.com/Quotes/bronowski.html

Jacob Bronowski Quote From the "Knowledge or Certainty", an episode from the 1973 BBC series "The Ascent of Man", transcribed by Evan Hunt: The Principle of Uncertainty is a bad name. In scienceor outside of itwe are not uncertain; our knowledge is merely confined, within a certain tolerance. We should call it the Principle of Tolerance. And I propose that name in two senses: First, in the engineering sensescience has progressed, step by step, the most successful enterprise in the ascent of man, because it has understood that the exchange of information between man and nature, and man and man, can only take place with a certain tolerance. But second, I also use the word, passionately, about the real world. All knowledgeall information between human beingscan only be exchanged within a play of tolerance. And that is true whether the exchange is in science, or in literature, or in religion, or in politics, or in *any* form of thought that aspires to dogma. It's a major tragedy of my lifetime and yours that scientists were refining, to the most exquisite precision, the Principle of Toleranceand turning their backs on the fact that all around them, tolerance was crashing to the ground beyond repair. The Principle of Uncertainty or, in my phrase, the Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

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43. Jacob Bronowski At Auschwitz ( The Acent of Man, by jacob bronowski; Little, Brown Co. / © jacobbronowski 1973). jacob bronowski; The Ascent of Man, page 374. http://www.godless.org/wtc&jb.html

Left: Firefighters near what was the base of the World Trade Center, Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Right: Jacob Bronowski standing in a pond of human ashes at Aushwitz prison camp. "It is said that science will dehumanise people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods. "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. In the end the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken'. "I owe it,as a scientist to my friend Leo Szilard, I owe it as a human being to the many members of my family who died at Auschwitz, to stand here by the pond as a survivor and a witness. We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people."

44. The Thought Of Jacob Bronowski In His Essays And In The Ascent Of Man The Thought of jacob bronowski in his Essays and in the Ascent of Man. bronowski,jacob, The Ascent of Man, Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1973. http://www.wetzoollamb.net/jfpp/joan/essays/bronowski.html

The Thought of Jacob Bronowski in his Essays and in the Ascent of Man Joan M. Johnson The early1970’s brought to American television screens a highly unusual offering – a thirteen week series entitled the Ascent of Man , which explored the cultural evolution of mankind, centered around science. The series, produced by the British Broadcasting Company, was unusual in several respects. It marked one of the rare instances in which the television medium developed is full potential, artistic, imaginative and educational. Also, it pursued, in depth and breadth, subjects of vital concern to contemporary man – including the history of his development through biological and cultural evolution and his inescapable responsibility as guardian of the essential dignity of the individual in our unfolding scientific future. Above all, the series enabled many thousands of people to become acquainted with a versatile man, an intellectual star in his own right, who chose to share his optimistic vision, his wit, and his warmth on the intimate basis that television allows. Jacob Bronowski was a veritable Renaissance man of the type which he describes in Magic, Science, and Civilization

45. Jacob Bronowski / The Ascent Of Man . . The Ascent of Man. jacob bronowski. review of the 1973 televisionseries narrated by bronowski. . High school history is little http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/bronowski_ascent_review.html

The Ascent of Man Jacob Bronowski [review of the 1973 television series narrated by Bronowski] High school history is little more than political history: not irrelevant but a sad omission of our intellectual heritage . Bronowski begins to make up for this negligence with a book based on his 13 part BBC series on the history of civilization and science. Having worked with the medium of television, he points out the advantages of the written word over visual images. The reader is exposed to more detail of evidence and can pause to reflect, whereas the viewer cannot. Of course, he said this in pre-VCR days, but the truth about detail still holds , and other scientist- broadcasters (i.e David Suzuki) who were initially enthusiastic about television now seriously question its power as an educational tool. While the counterculture was busy celebrating our links to the animal world, Bronowski looked at those gifts that allow us to stand out from the rest of the kingdom. Our ability to move our minds through space and time is taken for granted, and yet it is what has made our lives both more comfortable and more meaningful. And while the media focused on the corruption in society ( at the time of publication, there was the Vietnam War and Watergate ), Bronowski looked at major steps in its evolution: the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and eventually to building cities. Without the evolution of culture itself, man's potential would never have flowered.

46. Jacob Bronowski / Thoughts On Creativity . . Thoughts on Creativity. jacob bronowski. *****. What kind of personality does a scientist have to have to be successful ? divergent; convergent. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/bronowski_creativity.html

Thoughts on Creativity Jacob Bronowski What kind of "personality" does a scientist have to have to be "successful"? divergent convergent What is the essential tension and why does Kuhn believe it can be and is reconciled in order to produce advancements in science? How is education responsible for the predominance of divergent scientists in America and of convergent scientists in general? versus first rate second rate Consider the following interpretation by Jacob Bronowski, "The Creative Process," in S cientific Genius and Creativity , W.H. Freeman and Company, 1987 On p.3, Bronowski states, nonscientists would claim "Science . . . engages only part of the mind - the rational intellect - but creation must engage the whole mind. . . . Science demands none of that groundswell of emotion, none of that rich bottom of personality, which fills out the work of art. . . ." Bronowski takes exception: "This picture of the nonscientist of how a scientist works is of course mistaken. A gifted man (sic) cannot handle bacteria or equations without takng fire from what he does and having his emotions engaged." Emotions may be immature, as intellect may be immature in poets (re: Emma Wheller Wilcox), but the work of such a scientist will be "second-rate."

47. The Identity Of Man, By Jacob Bronowski, 120 Pages, Prometheus Books, 2002 Rediscovering jacob bronowski. By Timothy Sandefur. Liberty, Dec. 2002. TheIdentity of Man, by jacob bronowski, 120 pages, Prometheus Books, 2002. http://www.geocities.com/sande106/bronowskirev.htm

Rediscovering Jacob Bronowski By Timothy Sandefur Liberty , Dec. 2002 The Identity of Man , by Jacob Bronowski , 120 pages, Prometheus Books, 2002 Too few libertarians are familiar with Jacob Bronowski , and it is gratifying to see that they will have a new opportunity with the republication of The Identity of Man by Prometheus Books. One of his many collections of lectures, Identity was first published in 1965 and revised a year later to include “The Logic of The Mind,” a lengthy synopsis of the topic of the booknamely, whether a machine can ever “think” in the way that a human being does. He answers no. This is an endlessly fascinating debate, and although Bronowski’s treatment of it is not as persuasive as those of Daniel Dennett or Douglas Hofstader (who answer yes), Bronowski’s path is strewn with uniquely fruitful insights. This isn’t surprising, however; he was a unique man. Born in Lodz , Poland in 1908, Bronowski and his family escaped the simmering revolutions of Eastern Europe by fleeing to Germany, just in time to be trapped by World War I. After the war, when Bronowski was 12, the family moved to England. He arrived, he later said, speaking “rather badly, two words of English I had learnt on the channel boat,” but was soon enrolled in a school in London’s East End. He loved English, but he was equally adept at mathematics, and he often noted his good fortune in learning these two languages, as he thought of them, simultaneously. He was skilled enough at math that he qualified for a scholarship to Kings College, Cambridge in 1927. There he met some of the brilliant minds of the early twentieth century; in fact

48. Jacob Bronowski: The Ascent Of Man The Ascent of Man. jacob bronowski. Review date 29/8/2001 PublisherBBC, 1976 Published 1973. Like Kenneth Clarke s Civilisation http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6422/rev0926.html

The Ascent of Man Jacob Bronowski Review date: 29/8/2001 Publisher: BBC, 1976 Published: 1973 Like Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation The Ascent of man is a series looked up to by every producer of factual, educational TV programmes. It probably wouldn't get made today, as its broad canvas is not really fashionable, and it is not about ordinary people. Its subject is the history of science, far removed from the pseudo-anthropology of "Reality TV". The arrangement of material is a little unusual; it is basically thematic, each chapter tracking a particular subject (evolution, or the structure of matter, say) to modern times. The coverage of each theme is also slightly idiosyncratic and yet is exceptionally clear, even when not accompanied by the TV picture (the text sometimes refers to footage, which can be slightly confusing). After thirty years, a fair amount is out of date, but much remains to form an excellent introduction to basic modern scientific ideas, including some of the best explanations of relativistic travel and a wonderful demonstration of Pythagoras' Theorem. Return to list of reviews by author by submission date

49. Title List Title List. To view complete record information, select anyof the title(s) listed below. subject bronowski, jacob. http://www.university.ee/iucalibrary/ENG/slinks/s000124.htm

Title List To view complete record information, select any of the title(s) listed below. subject: Bronowski, Jacob. Symposium. The Norton Reader : An Anthology of Expository The Norton Reader : An Anthology of Expository The Norton Reader : An Anthology of Expository ... Top of Page

50. Jacob Bronowski Biography Dr jacob bronowski, who was born in Poland in 1908, died in 1974. His familyhad settled in Britain and he was educated at Cambridge University. http://www.bbcfactual.co.uk/jacob_bronowski_biography.htm

Dr Jacob Bronowski, who was born in Poland in 1908, died in 1974. His family had settled in Britain and he was educated at Cambridge University. He was distinguished not only as a scientist but also as the author of books and broadcasts on the arts. Many viewers will remember his science programmes on television: he also wrote radio plays, including one which won the Italia Prize. Dr Bronowski, who was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, had lived and worked in America since 1964, as a Senior Fellow and Director of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California. These are some of the press comments on the programmes: (Daily Mirror Mathew Coady)

51. Bronowski On The Second Law And Evolution Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time. by jacob bronowski. (from EvolutionExtended , Connie Barlow, ed., MIT Press, 1994). It is often http://www.ediacara.org/2lot.html

Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time by Jacob Bronowski (from "Evolution Extended", Connie Barlow, ed., MIT Press, 1994) It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy. But though this reply has a formal finality, in my view it evades the underlying question that is being asked. True, life could not have evolved in the absence of a steady stream of energy from the sun a kind of energy wind on the earth. But if there were no more to the mechanism of molecular evolution than this, we should still be at a loss to understand how more and more complex molecules cam to establish themselves. All the energy wind can do, in itself, is to increase the range and frequency of variation around the average state: that is, to stimulate the formation of more complex molecular arrangements. But most of these variant arrangements fall back to the norm almost at once, by the usual thermodynamic processes of degradation; so that it remains to be explained why they do not all do so, and how instead some complex arrangements establish themselves, and become the base for further complexity in their turn.

52. Resources From Ross A. Laird New York Routledge, 1985. bronowski, jacob. A Sense of the Future Essaysin Natural Philosophy. bronowski, jacob. Science and Human Values. http://www.rosslaird.com/resources.php

53. Online Encyclopedia - Jacob Bronowski , Encyclopedia Entry for jacob bronowski.imagebronowskism.jpg. jacob violence. Books by jacob bronowski.......Encyclopedia http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Jacob_Bronowski

Encyclopedia Entry for Jacob Bronowski Dictionary Definition of Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski January 18 , Lodz, Poland August 22 , East Hampton, New York USA ) was the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man which inspired Carl Sagan 's Cosmos series. Bronowski was originally a poet; he became a physicist. After the Hiroshima bombing he became a biologist to better understand the nature of violence. Books by Jacob Bronowski The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination The Poet's Defence William Blake and the Age of Revolution ISBN 07100727750710072783 (pbk.) The Ascent of Man ISBN 0613124634 The Face of Violence The Common Sense of Science Science and Human Values Insight The Identity of Man Nature and Knowledge: The Philosophy of Contemporary Science William Blake, 1757-1827; a man without a mask Quotes "I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together." "Dissent is the mark of freedom" "Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses."

54. Bronowski, JacobScience And Human Values bronowski, jacob Science And Human Values. 1990 New York. Perennial Press. Paperback.0060972815. Near Fine; Remainder mark; 0.37 x 8.01 x 5.31; 144 pp $3.00. http://www.popula.com/sh/no_727/2150114.htm

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55. The Ascent Of Man PRESENTER. jacob bronowski. PROGRAMMING HISTORY. BBC2 May 5-July 28, 1973. bronowski,jacob. The Ascent of Man. Boston, Massachusetts Little, Brown, 1974. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ascentofman/ascentofman.htm

THE ASCENT OF MAN British Documentary Series Born in Poland in 1908, Jacob Bronowski belongs as much to the scattering of central Europe in the wake of pogroms, revolutions and nazism as he did to the easy learning and liberal and humane socialism of the post-war consensus in Britain. A mathematician turned biologist, with several literary critical works to his name, he was a clear choice to provide David Attenborough's BBC2 with the follow-up to the international success of Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation By Bronowski's testimony, work began on the program in 1969, though the 13-part series only arrived on screen in 1974. Intended as a digest of the history of science for general viewers, and to match the claims of the Clarke series, it actually ranged further afield than the eurocentric Civilisation , although Bronowski retained a rather odd dismissal of pre-Colombian science and technology in the New World. The series faced, however, perhaps a greater challenge than its predecessor, in that the conceptual apparatus of science is less obviously telegenic than the achievements of culture. Nonetheless, the device of the "personal view" which underpinned BBC2's series of televisual essays gave the ostensibly dry materials a human warmth that allied them successfully with the presenter-led documentaries already familiar on British screens.

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Jacob Bronowski Q U O T E S T O I N S P I R E Y O U Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be! Action T he world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Mind T he hand is the cutting edge of the mind. List By Author : A B C D ... Z Display By Subject : A B C D ... Press here or the BACK BUTTON on your browser to return to the previous page... or choose from the following options: Are You Looking For More Great Quotes? Check Out The Ultimate Success Quotations Library Over 43,000 Quotes. Download Your FREE Evaluation Program... And Learn How You Can Make Your Writing And Speeches More Powerful! Go Here To Download Your FREE Ultimate Quotations Screen Saver! You Can Use Tony Robbins' Personal Power Program To Achieve Your Dreams! How To Double Your Internet Business Within The Next 97 Days... Guaranteed! ... Return To Victory City Directory And Check Out Other Fabulous Places! If you have any technical questions about this site, please send your email to webmaster@cybernation.com

57. Commentary Magazine - The Ascent Of Man, By Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man, by jacob bronowski. Rabb, Theodore K. THE publicimage of science is in one of its periodic declines. For the http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V60I1P97-1.htm

var AID="06001097_1"; The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bronowski Rabb, Theodore K. THE public image of science is in one of its periodic declines. For the past thirty years the fear aroused by the destructive powers of modern technology has cast the entire enterprise of... ...To move from Paracelsus to Priestley is to enter a totally transformed world, but the reader makes the transition without any hint of what had intervened, not even a mention of Boyle... ...Anyone who watched Bronowski on television will know that the book represents an extraordinary intelligence in action... ...Szilard's reply, "It is the tragedy of mankind," can also be taken to stand for a much larger argument-the argument whereby Bronowski seeks to restore the innocence and brilliance that seemed to characterize science for most of its history since the 17th century, and that even in the period just past has surrounded daring experiments like the demonstration of continental drift... ...he forces the reader to realize how many different ways one can judge the accomplishments and failings of the past... ...But in one area the problems outweigh the benefits, and that is in Bronowski's sense of history...

58. Jacob Bonowski + Baron De Montesquieu January 18. jacob bronowski (1906). It was on this date, January 18, 1906,that British mathematician jacob bronowski was born in Lodz, Poland. http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0118almanac.htm

RonaldBruceMeyer.com January 18 Jacob Bronowski (1906) It was on this date, January 18, 1906, that British mathematician Jacob Bronowski was born in Lodz, Poland. Fleeing the Russian conquest of Poland in World War I, the Bronowski family emigrated to Germany, then in 1920 moved to London. Bronowski was known to his friends as "Bruno," and studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, but by 1928 Bruno had discovered a love for poetry and literature. By 1933, when he received his doctorate and British citizenship, Bruno had already begun a melding of literature and science that was uniquely humanistic. The next year (1934), he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at University College, Hull, and five years later his first book, The Poet's Defense (1939) "wrestled with the relation between the truth of science and that of poetry," as he put it. His career achievement, however, was an 18-month project for BBC television called "The Ascent of Man." It was broadcast in 13 parts in 1973 and carried Bruno's philosophy of science and literature to a much wider audience than his books could reach. In it, he said, "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."* Perhaps the clearest statement of Bruno's religion was this: Dissent is the mark of freedom. And as originality and independence are private needs for the existence of a science, so dissent and freedom are its public needs. The safeguards which it must offer are apparent: free inquiry, free thought, free speech, tolerance. These freedoms of tolerance have never been notable in a dogmatic society, even when the dogma was Christian. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetimes.**

59. Jacob Bronowski Article on jacob bronowski from WorldHistory.com, licensed from Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia. Return to Article Index jacob bronowski. http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/J/Jacob-Bronowski.htm

World History (home) Encyclopedia Index Localities Companies Surnames ... This Week in History Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski January 18 , Lodz, Poland August 22 , East Hampton, New York USA ) was the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man which inspired Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. Bronowski wrote a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry , and was a poet; he became a physicist. After the Hiroshima bombing he became a biologist to better understand the nature of violence. Books by Jacob Bronowski The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination The Poet's Defence William Blake and the Age of Revolution ISBN 07100727750710072783 (pbk.) The Ascent of Man ISBN 0613124634 The Face of Violence The Common Sense of Science Science and Human Values Insight The Identity of Man Nature and Knowledge: The Philosophy of Contemporary Science William Blake, 1757-1827; a man without a mask Quotes :"I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together." :"Dissent is the mark of freedom" :"Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses."

60. FUMAÇAS: JACOB BRONOWSKI pertinent answer. .jacob bronowski (1908-74); British scientist. Publicado por http://fumacas.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/084056.html

Charutos, Política, Poesia, Prazeres Entrada julho 17, 2003 JACOB BRONOWSKI "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer." Jacob Bronowski (1908-74); British scientist. TrackBack Comentários Comente esta entrada Nome: E-mail: URL: Lembrar-me da sua informação pessoal? Sim Não Comentário:

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