Leonardo da Vinci

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for read more

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused read more

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that read more

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her read more

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.