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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.

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 Was A Genius But He Had A Certain Humility. In His Notebooks You See Lists Of People He Wanted To Grill About Things Like How The Water Diversions In Milan Work; He Was Always Interested In Learning From Other People.

Throughout His Life, Albert Einstein Would Retain The Intuition And The Awe Of A Child. He Never Lost His Sense Of Wonder At The Magic Of Nature's Phenomena-magnetic Fields, Gravity, Inertia, Acceleration, Light Beams-which Grown-ups Find So Commonplace. He Retained The Ability To Hold Two Thoughts In His Mind Simultaneously, To Be Puzzled When They Conflicted, And To Marvel When He Could Smell An Underlying Unity. "people Like You And Me Never Grow Old," He Wrote A Friend Later In Life. "we Never Cease To Stand Like Curious Children Before The Great Mystery Into Which We Were Born.

Smart People Are A Dime A Dozen. What Matters Is The Ability To Think Different... To Think Out Of The Box.

Sometimes, To Relieve Stress, He Would Soak His Feet In The Toilet, A Practice That Was Not As Soothing For His Collegues.