Leonardo da Vinci Quote

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence as I said before with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.


'Movement and Weight', from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. E. MacCurdy (1938), Vol. 1


Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence as I said before with...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence as I said before with...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence as I said before with...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence as I said before with...