Leonardo's Brain Quotes

“He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness while everyone else was still asleep. —Dmitry Merezhkovsky”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“This dichotomy between the spirits of Apollo and Dionysus suggests that the Greeks allegorically understood the different functions between the right and left brain.”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. —Marcel Proust”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“The intense effort to develop artificial intelligence has increased our understanding of neural networks because at its core, AI is but an attempt to improve artificially what the brain already does effortlessly.”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“Leonardo is both an extraordinary left-brained academician obsessed with portraying perspective correctly and an impish right-brained trickster who takes delight in fooling the viewer with perspectivist sleights of hand.”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

“Art and science represent the difference between “being” and “doing.” Art’s raison d’être is to evoke an emotion. Science seeks to solve problems by advancing knowledge. Candace Pert reminds us that in spite of our curiosity about science, we call ourselves, “human beings, not human doings.”
― Leonard Shlain, Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius