Leonard Shlain Quotes

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.