“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

—  Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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