No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — 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
