Leonardo da Vinci Quote: Although nature commences with reason and ends...

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.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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That which has no limitations, has no form.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci