

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
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“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo's Notebooks
― Leonardo's Notebooks

“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses – ribelli ad essi sensi – such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever.”
― Trattato della pittura
― Trattato della pittura
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