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Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.

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While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

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It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Leonard Shlain

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:
  1. Art & Physics (1991)
  2. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess (1998)
  3. Sex, Time and Power (2003)
  4. Finding Balance (2006)

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