"Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which,……" — Leonardo da Vinci

"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 discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body."

— Leonardo da Vinci

Animal Quotes Animals Quotes Answer Quotes Answers Quotes Any Quotes Beautiful Quotes Bodies Quotes Body Quotes Constructs Quotes Correspond Quotes Counterpoise Quotes Devise Quotes Devise Various Quotes Discover Quotes Help Quotes Helping Quotes Her Inventions Quotes Human Quotes Human Ingenuity Quotes Humans Quotes Ingenuity Quotes Instruments Quotes Into Quotes Invention Quotes Inventions Quotes Lacking Quotes Limbs Quotes Makes Quotes Makes Use Quotes May Quotes More Quotes Motion Quotes Nature Quotes Never Discover Quotes Nothing Quotes Nothing Lacking Quotes Nothing Superfluous Quotes One Quotes Practical Quotes Practicals Quotes Purpose Quotes Purpose Yet Quotes Puts Quotes Same Quotes Same Purpose Quotes Science Quotes She Makes Quotes She Puts Quotes Simple Quotes Soul Quotes Such Quotes Superfluous Quotes Their Bodies Quotes Them Quotes Use Quotes Various Quotes Various Instruments Quotes Way Quotes

460 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci has 460 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 460 quotes by Leonardo da Vinci »

More Animal Quotes

This quote is filed under Animal Quotes, one of 5,037 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

See all 5,037 Animal Quotes »