“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
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“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
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“The golden age never was the present age.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary sourceNature Experience Science Cause and Effect