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“ ”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.
About Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.
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Additional quotes by 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 time present.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.