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Trying to escape from
myself, from my own style

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because, as a scientific worker,
I hate any kind of repetition.

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It's enough for repetition in
two books and not three books.

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And you heard I have 13.

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So I started some
new structures.

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And some of these structures
which was in my mind not

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poems just the
brief reflections--

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right-- the whole collection
of brief reflections

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in the British translation--
brief thoughts.

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The first one which
I'm going to read maybe

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made me an atomic
physicist because it

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was the first volume published
by, I believe, Academic Press

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on the Einstein anniversary.

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And they printed this poem.

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And in the current contents
of scientific literature,

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physical scientist,
it was given--

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they give just the titles.

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And it was Mr. So-and-so on
the relativistic principle

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in today's astronomy
and Mr. So-and-so,

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and all physical contributions.

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And on the beginning was
Holub: brief thoughts

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on the theory of relativity.

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And, so, I started to get
requests for reprints,

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for this physical
physicist contribution.

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So I became a physicist.

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"Brief Thoughts on the
Theory of Relativity."

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"Albert Einstein
discussing, knowledge

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is discovering what to say.

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Discussing with Paul Valéry
was asked, Mr. Einstein,

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what do you do
with your thoughts?

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Write them down immediately
they come to you

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or wait till evening or morning?

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Albert Einstein responded,
Monsieur Valéry, in our craft,

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thoughts are so rare
that when you have one,

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you certainly won't forget
it, even a year after."

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