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Dictionary definition: Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 Italian scholar-artist
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There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.‘Philosophy’, in
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
, trans. E. MacCurdy, (1938) Vol. 1, 70.
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Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from ...