Leonardo da Vinci Quote: Why are the bones of great fishes,...

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?

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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Select Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life