One of the most celebrated artists of all time. The Italian Renaissance artist was a engineer, architect, master painter, sculptor, anatomist and inventor. Leonardo is considered to be a genius, creating some of the most famous paintings ever painted and known as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
His notebooks were filled with drawings of many inventions that anticipated modern technology (flying machines, submarines and war machines), but were rarely constructed in his lifetime.
Among other inventions of the master, there were machines like a cog-wheeled device that has been interpreted as the first mechanical calculator, and a car powered by a spring mechanism.
Moreover, he made contributed to advance the studies of civil engineering, anatomy and
astronomy.
During his years in the Vatican, da Vinci planned an industrial use of solar power, by employing concave mirrors to heat water.
(1452 - 1519)
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Hunt was a poet of charm and technical skill, who developed an interest in politics and poetry.
He was an able translator and playwright, Leigh Hunt excelled as an essayist, literary critic and letter writer. His concern was always to 'open
more widely the door of the library', to share his literary enthusiasms and extend his readers' tastes.
This anthology draws on the full range of Hunt's poetry and prose, revealing a writer committed to the humane and civilizing powers of literature
and friendship.
He upset the authorities by pointing out on the front page of every edition of his political journal called the "Examiner", that half the cost
of the price was the result of the government's "tax on knowledge".
In 1812 Leigh along with his brother John, were arrested and charged with libel after publishing an article criticizing the Prince Regent.
The brothers were found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
(1784-1859)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
