Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on scie...

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would fi...

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishmen...

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, b...

Sunlight is painting.

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icon...

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.