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------------Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. ----------Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.----------Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.------------------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. --------------Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment-------------------Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. ----------I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ---------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. ---------The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. --------He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.-------------------------------Inequality is the cause of all local movements.------------The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human enquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.--------------Il sole no si muove The sun does not move. ---------------Nessuna humana investigazione si pio dimandara vera scienzia s'essa non passa per le matematiche dimonstrazione. No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.Treatise ..ing --------Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to Authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory. ---------------There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation. ------------------He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002). --------There are three classes of people. Those who see; those who see when they are shown; those who do not see.Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002). ------------Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.-------------------Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. ----------------------The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance. --------------You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ------------Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. --------------I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.Leonardo da Vinci

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