 It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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Category Archives: Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci – In Nature’s inventions, nothing is superfluous
| Even though the genius of man might make various inventions, attaining the same end by various means, it will not invent anything more beautiful, or more economical, or more direct than nature, for in nature’s inventions nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous.
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Leonardo da Vinci – A bird is a reproducible instrument
| A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its movements.
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Leonardo da Vinci – Reliance on authority uses memory
| Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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