" When I was asked" a friend confessed, "because I had just discovered the theory of relativity, it seemed that this was due to the following circumstances. The normal adult never worries about the problems and space. Everything you need to think about it, in his opinion, has already been thought of in its infancy. I, on the contrary, I grew so slowly that I began to ask me questions about space and time only when I was an adult now. Consequently, I studied the issue more thoroughly than would an ordinary child. "One could not be more modest, or to define intuition more easily. (taken from Arthur Koestler, The act of creation , Ed Astrolabe, pag.165 ) It never fails to amaze that his total disinterest in playing the role of genius that the media were eager to give it!
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