"It is the infinite alone that cannot..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
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“Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”
“He turns not back who is bound to a star.”
“As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.”
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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.”
“Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.”