Leonardo da Vinci

His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo. His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the

But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer

If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovato

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least