Your Morning Bronowski

For Tuesday, March 21st

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.)

“The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.” —The Face of Violence