Jacob Bronowski Quotes

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to simplify them. They think they can nail your whole life down just by knowing the bare bones of your history in partaking in 10 minutes of conversation.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.