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1452–1519 Italy

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, scientist, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.

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Also known as: Da Vinci, Da vinci, Leonardo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo da venci, Leonardo da vinci

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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there shall come forth loud noises out of the tombs of those who have died by an evil and violent death.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees — that is to say, friars.

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Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. … Nothing is hidden under the sun.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.

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