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Such Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
- Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
- I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned…
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and…
- 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…
- You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
- A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter…
- Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the…
- In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere…
- The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
- Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
- 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…
- I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the…
- We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses,…
- All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is…
- A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,…
- I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look…
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- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough