I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

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.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.