Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

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Renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic Vitruvian Man. He also devised such futuristic technology as tanks, concentrated solar power, and adding machines, and spearheaded some vital breakthroughs in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

  • When was
    Leonardo da Vinci born?

    Leonardo da Vinci was born on Thursday, April 15, 1452

  • Where was
    Leonardo da Vinci born?

    Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy

  • How old is
    Leonardo da Vinci?

    Leonardo da Vinci is 572

Best Quotes

  • Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
  • Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!
  • One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
  • I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
  • You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand
  • Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
  • Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
  • When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
  • Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.
  • The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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