"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

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Source : Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

Leonardo da Vinci

#Inspirational Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Men Quotes

“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA
“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”
“In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.”
“Painters and poets have liberty to lie.”
“There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.”
“I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.”
“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
“I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.”

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