To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Jacob BronowskiWhen 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 BronowskiWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski