“In my view, what we need today is exactly the kind of science that Leonardo da Vinci outlined 500 years ago.” One hundred years before Galileo and Bacon, Leonardo single-handedly developed a new empirical approach, involving the systematic observation of nature, reasoning, and mathematics – in other words, the main characteristics of what is known today as the scientific method. However, Leonardo’s systematic studies of living and non-living forms amounted to a science of quality and wholeness – fundamentally different from the mechanistic science of Galileo and Newton.