WIBCI we learned from HISTORY?:
Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel, and the author of Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind.
In the Ken Burns documentary Leonardo da Vinci – Painter-God he mentions Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, theBritish art historian, museum director and broadcaster:
‘Sir Kenneth Clark called him the most curious man in history. He was always interested, he was always wanting to know; and I think more than even the paintings, more than the mysterious ‘Lisa’, more than ‘The Last Supper’, is this sense of Leonardo, the man who never took no as an answer in terms of finding things out.’
The Merriam-Webster definition of curious is as follows:
Curious: / kyu̇r / ē / əs / adj:
- marked by desire to investigate and learn
- marked by inquisitive interest in others’ concerns
- exciting attention as strange, novel, or unexpected
Can you think of a better adjective to describe someone in such a sentence?
The richest man in history?
The most successful man in history?
The most ruthless man in history?
I would take ‘Curious’ any day. What would YOU?
Last Updated on 08/20/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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