Leonardo Da Vinci: Citáty v angličtine (page 11)

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“Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Varianta: 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.

“The eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade

“The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Varianta: Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

“The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.”

These notes were possibly written in preparation for a letter. The meaning is obscure.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Every quantity is intellectually conceivable as infinitely divisible.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”

"Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“O admirable impartiality of Thine, Thou first Mover; Thou hast not permitted that any force should fail of the order or quality of its necessary results.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“And if you should say that the shells were carried by the waves, being empty and dead, I say that where the dead went they were not far removed from the living; for in these mountains living ones are found, which are recognisable by the shells being in pairs; and they are in a layer where there are no dead ones; and a little higher up they are found, where they were thrown by the waves, all the dead ones with their shells separated, near to where the rivers fell into the sea, to a great depth; like the Arno which fell from the Gonfolina near to Monte Lupo, where it left a deposit of gravel which may still be seen, and which has agglomerated; and of stones of various districts, natures, and colours and hardness, making one single conglomerate. And a little beyond the sandstone conglomerate a tufa has been formed, where it turned towards Castel Florentino; farther on, the mud was deposited in which the shells lived, and which rose in layers according to the levels at which the turbid Arno flowed into that sea. And from time to time the bottom of the sea was raised, depositing these shells in layers, as may be seen in the cutting at Colle Gonzoli, laid open by the Arno which is wearing away the base of it; in which cutting the said layers of shells are very plainly to be seen in clay of a bluish colour, and various marine objects are found there. And if the earth of our hemisphere is indeed raised by so much higher than it used to be, it must have become by so much lighter by the waters which it lost through the rift between Gibraltar and Ceuta; and all the more the higher it rose, because the weight of the waters which were thus lost would be added to the earth in the other hemisphere. And if the shells had been carried by the muddy deluge they would have been mixed up, and separated from each other amidst the mud, and not in regular steps and layers — as we see them now in our time.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XVI Physical Geography

“A point is not part of a line.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective