The famous apple has been transformed into a hard sphere hanging from a string. It appears to be halted midflight, the cord representing the fall of the apple. In this sculpture, Dalí implies that the living being Newtin has become a mere namne in science, entirely stripped of his personality and individuality. His incredible and revolutionary laws of motion take centre place obscuring all personal details of Newton himself.

To depict this transformation, Dalí has pierced the figure with two eye-catching holes, the oval in the head suggests open mindedness whilst the large opening in the torso portrays the absence of Newton’s physical body. The opening on the chest and the way light shines through is a perfect symbolic allusion to another of the physician’s discoveries, on subject of light.