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Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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“Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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“Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.”
“O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.”
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Notebooks
“People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing”
“The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.”
“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.”
“He turns not back who is bound to a star.”
Source: Notebooks
“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”
“I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.”
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“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.”
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.”
“Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci