Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. XIX, as translated by Jean Paul Richter (1888)

Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.

— Leonardo da Vinci on Necessity

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act." in the context of "Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. XIX, as translated by Jean Paul Richter (1888)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Leonardo da Vinci

About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.