I Was An Extremely Reclusive And Introverted

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.

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.

When I Moved To Stanford I Began To Pursue The Line Of Research I Have Been Following Ever Since, Namely Trying To Understand The Larger Implications Of Fractional Quantum Hall Discovery.

My Childhood Home Backed Onto Wheat And Cotton Fields.

A Person Obsessed With Ultimate Truth Is A Person Asking To Be Relieved Of Money.