But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and… — 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
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations. — 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 body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. — 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
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite… — 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
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass,… — 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
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — 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
