Innovation Requires Articulation.

Leonardo Da Vinci Did Not Take Received Wisdom - Whether From Ancient Classical Thinkers Or Medieval Scholars Or From The Bible - Without Questioning It. And This Was The Beginning Of The Scientific Method. This Is Another Lesson For Our Time: That When We Have Evidence That Contradicts A Certain Belief, We Should Be Willing To Change It. I Think This Made Leonardo, In Some Ways, A Person Who Better Understood The Beauty Of God's Creation Than A Person Who Just Takes All Received Wisdom From The Bible On Faith.

A Popular Feel For Scientific Endeavors Should, If Possible, Be Restored Given The Needs Of The Twenty-first Century. This Does Not Mean That Every Literature Major Should Take A Watered-down Physics Course Or That A Corporate Lawyer Should Stay Abreast Of Quantum Mechanics. Rather, It Means That An Appreciation For The Methods Of Science Is A Useful Asset For A Responsible Citizenry. What Science Teaches Us, Very Significantly, Is The Correlation Between Factual Evidence And General Theories, Something Well Illustrated In Einstein's Life.

We Relate To Leonardo Da Vinci Because His Genius Was Just Being Passionately Curious About Everything. He Wanted To Know Everything He Could Know About Our Universe, Including How We Fit Into It. We Can't All Have A Superhuman Intellect Like Albert Einstein's, But We Can Be Super-curious. And We Can Also Quit Smashing Curiosity Out Of The Hands Our Children.

In The Age Of The Internet When Everybody's A Pundit, We're Still Gonna Need Somebody There To Go Talk To The Colonels, To Be On The Ground In Baghdad And Stuff And That's Very Expensive.

And If You Don't Have Your Ears Open, You're Not Going To Be Able To Figure Out What You Should Be Doing.