Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — 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 Image
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 Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
