Week Three of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This week, let’s continue with another brilliant JB . . . Jacob Bronowski, a Polish-born British mathematician, professor, and lover of William Blake, Albert Einstein, and humanity.
“I grew up,” Bronowski said, “to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.”
We should all grow up like that.
(Personal Note: He was born in Łódź, Poland, the same place as my grandfather, and died at 66, the same age as my grandfather.)
“Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.” — The Ascent of Man
(He said this in 1973)
Your Morning Bronowski
Obviously Rhonda Santis never read the book; nor many others, I suspect. I predict the temperature in Floriduh will reach 451 F this summer.
Not that Texas where I live, nor Oklahoma where you do, have any bragging rights.
Powerful!