Jacob Bronowski Quotes About Unity

Quotes about: Unity

• Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Nature, Science

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

• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Discovery, Missing

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

• The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Discovery, Order, Giving

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

• All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Unity

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.13, Faber & Faber

• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unity, Deep Thought

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

• A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Artist, Men, Creative

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