Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Newton

• When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mean, Science, Purpose

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

• Da Vinci fue tan gran mecánico e inventor como Newton y sus amigos. Sin embargo, un vistazo a sus cuadernos nos muestra que lo que le fascinaba de la naturaleza era su variedad, su infinita adaptabilidad, la adecuación y la individualidad de todas sus partes. Por el contrario, lo que hacía de la astronomía un placer para Newton era su unidad, su unicidad, su modelo de una naturaleza en la que las partes diversificadas eran meros disfraces de los mismos átomos en blanco.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Nature, Science

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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