Baby brain

 

You have to be cautious when talking with scientists about art, or with artists about science. My opinion is that they are actually the same thing, expressions of the human quest to expand our understanding of the universe.

This photograph is the plaque at the entrance of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University commemorating its 1953 opening. It seems about perfect to me, as art or as science. The motto beneath it: Where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding?