Star Trek: Voyager1995

[da Vinci is baffled by the "magic" technology he has encountered]

Captain Kathryn Janeway:
Let me ask you something. If you were something other than a human being, if you were a different kind of animal... If you were a small bird, a sparrow - what would your world be like?

Leonardo da Vinci:
I should make my home in a tree, in the branch of an elm. I should hunt insects for food, straw for my nest, and in the springtime, I should sing for a companion.

Captain Kathryn Janeway:
And you would know nothing of the politics of Florence - the cutting of marble or mathematics.

Leonardo da Vinci:
Of course not.

Captain Kathryn Janeway:
But why not?

Leonardo da Vinci:
My mind would be too small.

Captain Kathryn Janeway:
As a sparrow, your mind would be too small, even with the best of teachers?

Leonardo da Vinci:
If Aristotle himself were to perch on my branch and lecture till he... fell off from exhaustion - still the limits of my mind would prevent me from understanding.

Captain Kathryn Janeway:
And as a man, can you accept that there may be certain realities beyond the limits of your comprehension?

Leonardo da Vinci:
If I could not accept that... then I would be a fool.