Quote of the day by Leonardo da Vinci: 'Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind,' and why the greatest threat to intelligence is leaving it unused

Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as one of history's greatest painters, though reducing him to an artist alone hardly captures the scale of his curiosity. He studied anatomy by dissecting human bodies, designed machines centuries ahead of their time, filled notebooks with observations about birds, rivers, engineering and mathematics, and moved comfortably between art and science in a way that still feels extraordinary today.

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