Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.
da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Translated by Edward MacCurdy, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938.
This was a time when the church and establishment only recognized the Bible and the views of the authorities as a means of knowing and validating knowledge. By appealing to the individual’s own judgment and empiricism he was far ahead of his time. See {586126}.
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, theorist, engineer, scientist, sculptor and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo's genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivaled only by that of his younger contemporary and fellow founder of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo.
