“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.” MadeShowsScienceNatureNaturalPleasureModelsInfiniteUnityMereIndividualityAstronomyVarietyAtomsFascinatedContrastBlankDisguiseGlancesMechanicInventorNotebookNewtonAdaptabilitySingleness Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.” WantFirstsShowsEyeRoomsImpressionGlancesEnteringFirst ImpressionImpressionism Author:Pierre Bonnard
“The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.” ShowsObjectsOppositesGlancesGlimpse Author:James Elkins
“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.” KnowsMadeEnoughShowsPleasureLibertyMoralToo MuchFortuneSlaveCastsIgnorantVainGlancesBoastCowardlyBeing Free Author:Jean-Paul Marat