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)
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is made by the death of others.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have wasted my hours.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Dante Alighieri was the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced.
He wrote the epic work Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) in dialect Italian. Divina Commedia represented the cosmology and
cosmogony of Dante's day. Dante also wrote De Monarchia, a treatise on political science. He believed that the purpose of government
was to preserve peace and the best form was a world monarchy. According to his concept, universe was a perfect, hierarchal, intelligible cosmos.
(1265-1321)
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
