Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer | Dwarkesh Patel
"To be a scientist is to publish your results and share them with a community of other scientists so that they can test them so that the whole human civilization progresses a little bit. Leonardo does not want to contribute to human progress... this is actually a saboteur of human progress." - Ada Palmer [01:10:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA&t=1h10m27s)
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