While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the … - Leonardo da Vinci

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.

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.

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.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.