The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your… — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
