The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Science, its principles and rules (1148--1161)  
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or  
past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass,  
though but slowly.  
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Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human  
race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being  
constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which  
is its helm, requires her to act.  
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.  
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in  
experience.  
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