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"All movements in the universe—of human limbs and of cogs in machines, of blood in our veins and of water in rivers—operate according to the same laws."

Leonardo came to see that the progress of science came from a dialogue between the experience and received wisdom.
“Although nature begins with the cause and ends with the experience, we must follow the opposite course, namely begin with the experience, and by means of it investigate the cause.”

Leonardo came to see that the progress of science came from a dialogue between the experience and received wisdom.
“Although nature begins with the cause and ends with the experience, we must follow the opposite course, namely begin with the experience, and by means of it investigate the cause.”

"“All the arts and all the world’s rules are derived from a well-composed and proportioned human body. Man, called a little world, contains in himself all the general perfections of the whole world.”

The beauty of Leonardo’s Notebooks are that it indulges provisional thoughts, half finished ideas, unpolished sketches, and drafts for treatises not yet refined.

One possible reason is that the task he undertook became overwhelming for a perfectionist. “He never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles."
And he knew that there was always more he might learn, new techniques he might master, and further inspirations that might strike him. And he was right.

“Leave your family and friends and go over the mountains and valleys
into the country; While you are alone you are entirely your own master.
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