Italian - Artist | April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
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The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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I have wasted my hours.
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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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