Your Morning Bronowski

For Wednesday, March 22nd

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 richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.”