Trying to escape from myself, from my own style
because, as a scientific worker, I hate any kind of repetition.
It's enough for repetition in two books and not three books.
And you heard I have 13.
So I started some new structures.
And some of these structures which was in my mind not
poems just the brief reflections--
right-- the whole collection of brief reflections
in the British translation-- brief thoughts.
The first one which I'm going to read maybe
made me an atomic physicist because it
was the first volume published by, I believe, Academic Press
on the Einstein anniversary.
And they printed this poem.
And in the current contents of scientific literature,
physical scientist, it was given--
they give just the titles.
And it was Mr. So-and-so on the relativistic principle
in today's astronomy and Mr. So-and-so,
and all physical contributions.
And on the beginning was Holub: brief thoughts
on the theory of relativity.
And, so, I started to get requests for reprints,
for this physical physicist contribution.
So I became a physicist.
"Brief Thoughts on the Theory of Relativity."
"Albert Einstein discussing, knowledge
is discovering what to say.
Discussing with Paul Valéry was asked, Mr. Einstein,
what do you do with your thoughts?
Write them down immediately they come to you
or wait till evening or morning?
Albert Einstein responded, Monsieur Valéry, in our craft,
thoughts are so rare that when you have one,
you certainly won't forget it, even a year after."