“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
Leonardo da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Primary source)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Jean Paul Richter, is a thematic anthology of Leonardo’s writings on art, science, anatomy, engineering, and philosophy—revealing the genius’s insights, observations, and inventions through his own reflective and analytical prose.
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“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
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“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
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— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“God helps them that help themselves.”
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