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Renaissance painter, engineer and notebook keeper
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The most useful work is that which can be easily communicated and understood by others without language barriers.
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That art was of highest excellence, he wrote, which possessed most elements of variety and universality.2 more supporting quotes are in the member records.
Success comes from taking nature as a guide rather than merely copying the work of predecessors.
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That art was of highest excellence, he wrote, which possessed most elements of variety and universality.2 more supporting quotes are in the member records.
Virtue and excellence inevitably attract envy, so one should view opposition as a natural shadow of their achievements.
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He proves the sun's heat by observing how cold mirrors and glass spheres filled with water can still refract and intensify heat.
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The friction of polished bodies produces no sound, and similar result would be produced in the contact or friction of the spheres2 more supporting quotes are in the member records.
He insists on defining the origin and nature of a phenomenon, like the voice, before debating its possibilities.
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There can be no voice where there is no motion or percussion of the air, there can be no percussion of the air where there is no instrument, there can be no such thing as an immaterial instrument2 more supporting quotes are in the member records.
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