'Unity Hidden Likeliness' By Jacob Bronowski

In Jacob Bronowski’s essay he discusses about the nature of scientific theorems. He uses multiple examples of great scientists who have ground breaking discoveries and huge impacts on humanity. Bronowski says that science looks for “unity hidden likeliness” (par.8) by creativity and imaginary. He uses a famous story of Newton discovering the gravity as an example. He says that we have a misconception of an apple falling on his head and that lead to the discovery of gravity, instead, he saw an apple fell and it inspired him to think of the force of gravity will go beyond earth and into the deep universe. Here is were scientists are creative and imaginative, ordinary people may ignore the falling apple, but scientists, like Newton, will think
out of the box. I like very much the one of the example about the planets, the orbits of them and the relationship between the year of the planet and the average distance of it from the sun. A scientist, Kepler, says that the square of the year of the plant is proportional to the cube of the average distance from the sun. Bronwski’s then plains that this theory seems simple to find if you have enough readings and time to do the maths. But I agree with him very much is not the ways of finding the relationship, rather, is have the mindset to think and connect the likeliness of the two events. Moreover, Copernicus who found out that orbits of planets should be view from the point of the sun. The process of generating this thought is by imaginary. He put himself into the perspective of the sun and viewed the orbits. That is what matters behind, the process of thinking and imaging beyond what we normally see and ignore. I like how Bronowski understands science. I used to think the science is dull and uncreative and so are scientists, his essay gives me a fresh perspective of viewing the science field. Now I appreciate the minds scientists have, not because of the intelligence they have but the ability to think further than normal people and the courage to suggest connections between every atom, every cell and every force of the nature no matter how far or impossible it may seem. Although, it changed my opinion on scientists yet my feelings about science remains the same.