Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.