“Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variant: Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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