Photograph by Victoria Kurtovich

Men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee....gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field [and] transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Leonardo da Vinci (Born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci) — Italian Renaissance Painter, Architect, Mathematician, and Scientist (1452 — 1519).