The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips, MCR software, 1995.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, (Apr 15 1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer; He was a renaissance man best remembered for his paintings, Mona Lisa, 1503; The Last Supper, 1498.