Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardoˈvintʃi] ; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 April 1452
CityVinci, Italy
CountryItaly
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
The days are long enough for those who use them.
Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.