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He made lists of things he wanted to learn — how to describe the tongue of a woodpecker, the jaw of a crocodile, the placenta of a calf — and then relentlessly pursued each item.
— Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci (2017) — Coda: Describe the Tongue of the Woodpecker
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If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.
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There is no reason you actually need to know any of this. But I thought maybe, after reading this book, that you, like Leonardo, who one day put 'Describe the tongue of the woodpecker' on one of his to-do lists, would want to know. Just out of curiosity. Pure curiosity.
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