Quote of the day
The [Nobel ]prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Leonard Shlain

Born: August 28, 1937
Died: May 11, 2009 (aged 71)
Bio: Leonard Shlain was a US surgeon, author, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at University of California, San Francisco.
Known for:
- Art & Physics (1991)
- The Alphabet Versus the Goddess (1998)
- Sex, Time and Power (2003)
- Finding Balance (2006)






