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.
Polymath, artist, inventor, scientist
From his notebooks, praising nature's design over human ingenuity.
Undated, but from his lifetime (1452-1519)
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