Observation as Innovation Source

““Powers of observation are indispensable in order to pro- duce anything. Perhaps I can better explain what I mean by referring to the arts. Leonardo da Vinci had wonderful”

“powers of observation; he could reproduce with exactitude something which today we would take a magnifying glass to; he could catch movement as the camera does now, and at the same time he gave the illusion of life to his sketches, some- thing that photography is unable to do. “It is by observation that one can penetrate into the nature of things. If a man like Leonardo became a military engineer, he would be an expert at it; his advice on any subject would be invaluable, and his ideas on the matter would be highly original.”