"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
-Jacob Bronowski
societyView Quote
"You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.“
-Jacob Bronowski
posted in environmental
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
-Jacob Bronowski
scienceView Quote
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
-Jacob Bronowski
scienceView Quote
"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
-Jacob Bronowski
scienceView Quote
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
-Jacob Bronowski
scienceView Quote
"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
scienceView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."
-John Portman
environmentalView Quote
"Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up."
-Patrick Buchanan
environmentalView Quote
"There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it."
-Thomas R. Cech
environmentalView Quote
"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."
-John Coleman
environmentalView Quote
"This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment."
-Jim Jeffords
environmentalView Quote
"Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father."
-Jim Jeffords
environmentalView Quote