Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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)






