"The Book of the science of Mechanics..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

“There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.”

“When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.”

“Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.”

“...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.”

“...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.”

“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”

“Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.”

“Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.”