Comment Quote by Lucio Russo

“Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.”

— Walter Isaacson

“such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate son, Leonardo…

— Hourly History

“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even…

— Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He…

— Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was…

— Giorgio Vasari

“It is only through fiction that we truly explore our future, as the future is no longer an extension of the present.”

— Martin Talks

“If creative procrastination, selectively applied, prevented Leonardo from finishing a few commissions—of minor importance when one is struggling with the inner workings of the…

— Adam M. Grant

“Leonardo received an adequate education, learning basic Latin, mathematics, and geography. He was never a stellar student, instead finding his attentions on things other…

— Hourly History

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

— Kenneth Clark

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just…

— Michelle Moran

“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability…

— Ashlee Vance

“The beauty of science fiction was that its authors never had to work out the logistics of how we would arrive in the future.…

— Emily Witt