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. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.


The Ascent of Man (1973), BBC Books: London, Chapter 13: The Long Childhood, p. 330.

Jacob Bronowski Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...