Top 10 Leonard Shlain Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities.

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#4. Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns ... I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

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

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#6. I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

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#7. We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. I ... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud ... Out here, everything was Jung.

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