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You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.

— Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

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