My Job At Stanford Is Rather Different

To This Day I Always Insist On Working Out A Problem From The Beginning Without Reading Up On It First, A Habit That Sometimes Gets Me Into Trouble But Just As Often Helps Me See Things My Predecessors Have Missed.

I Was An Extremely Reclusive And Introverted Boy.

My Mother Also Had Us Take Piano Lessons, And This Had A Similar Effect. I Hated Those Lessons, But I Now Play Regularly For Pleasure And Have Even Tried My Hand At Composing.

It Is Ironic That Einsteins Most Creative Work, The General Theory Of Relativity, Should Boil Down To Conceptualizing Space As A Medium When His Original Premise [in Special Relativity] Was That No Such Medium Existed[..].

So Mothers Everywhere Take Heart. The Indoctrination You Administer Now May Have Unanticipated Positive Effects Years Later.