Art is never finished, only abandoned.
— Leonardo da Vinci
We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life
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