Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 15

What is called Nothingness is to be found only in time and in speech. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Nothing is that which fills no space. View quote
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There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West. View quote
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Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. View quote
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Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. View quote
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The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death. View quote
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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. View quote
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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. View quote
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A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. View quote
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A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves. View quote
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Every body that is moved continues to move so long as the impression of the force of its mover is retained in it, therefore the movement of this wing with violence... will come to move the whole bird with it until the impetus of the moved air has been consumed. View quote
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. View quote
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. View quote
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. View quote
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. View quote
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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. View quote
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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. View quote
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. View quote
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I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. View quote
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. (Leonardo da Vinci)
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. View quote
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Nature never breaks her own laws. View quote
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work. View quote
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All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. View quote
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