title: The Common Sense of Science
author:  Jacob Bronowski 
description: Jacob Bronowski was born in Poland in 1908. At the age of 12 he came to England, and within six years was a brilliant mathematics student at Cambridge. During the war he helped to forecast the economic effects of bombing Germany. After many years working for the National Coal Board, he moved to the Salk Institute in 1964 while developing his career as a broadcaster. In 1973, he presented for the BBC the ambitious 13-part series <i>The Ascent of Man</i>, which made him a household name. He died the following year.
zlib_text: With a new preface by Sir Hermann Bondi 
  
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  in 2017 with funding from 
  China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) 
  https://archive.org/details/commonsenseofsciOObron_0 
  
  COMMON SENSE 
  OF SCIENCE 
  hy 
  J. BRONOWSKI 
  with a foreword by 
  Sir Hermann Bondi 
  HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
  Cambridge, Massachusetts 
  
  Foreword © copyright 1978 by Sir Hermann Bondi 
  10 9 8 7 6 
  All rights reserved 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number A53-9924 
  ISBN 0-674-14651-4 (paper) 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  
  FOREWORD 
  This is a delightful book, at least as important now as 
  when it first appeared. Dr. Bronowski squarely attacks 
  the widespread attitude that'science is different and 
  separate from general culture, which he regards as totally 
  mistaken, just as I do. Why, I wonder, is it that if you 
  ask the man in the street whether he could learn, say, 
  Albanian, he will respond that of course he could though 
  it would be an effort, but if he is asked whet