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“In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”

Inspirational Nature Invention Lacking Inventing Subtlety Superfluous Inventing Things

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”

Ifs Made Shows Eye Water Nature Animal Sky Events Fields Color Blue Green Paint Vegetables Vary Superfluous Minerals Hue

Author:Leigh Hunt

“human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”

Knows Humans Looks Doe Important Real Names Nature Natural Color Flower Important Things Superfluous Natural Things

Book:Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

Source: Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

“In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.”

Enough Force Nature Perfect Money Economy One Thing Reserves Principal Superfluous Frugality Employing

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

Humans Doe Beautiful Nature Simple Beauty Hair Direct Simplicity Invention Lacking Inventing Subtlety Superfluous Human Inventions Inventing Things

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.”

Doe Science Causes Nature Simplicity Vain Superfluous

Book:Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world