Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
— Leonardo da Vinci Early Modern

Polymath, artist, inventor, scientist

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From his notebooks, praising nature's design over human ingenuity.

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Undated, but from his lifetime (1452-1519)

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