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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.12,0:00:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental synthesizer music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.84,0:00:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(tape rewinding)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.36,0:00:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(electronic instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.06,0:00:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Voiceover] My father, you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.95,0:00:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interested me in patterns\Nat the very beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.03,0:00:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then later in things,\Nlike we would turn over stones
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.82,0:00:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and watch the ants carry the little
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.16,0:00:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white babies down deeper into the hole.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.53,0:00:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would look at worms.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.76,0:00:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’d go for walks and we’d\Nlook at things all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.41,0:00:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stars, the way birds fly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.11,0:00:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was always telling\Nme interesting things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.79,0:00:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this story’s a rumor,\Nas far as I’m concerned,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.08,0:00:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the story is that before I was born,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.10,0:00:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he told my mother that,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.76,0:00:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“If it’s a boy, he’ll be a scientist.”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.15,0:00:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father used to sit me on his lap
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.78,0:00:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the one book we did use all
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.17,0:00:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the time was the Encyclopedia Britannica
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.58,0:00:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he used to sit me on\Nhis lap when I was a kid
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.51,0:00:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and read out of the damned thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.40,0:00:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There would be pictures of\Ndinosaurs and then he would read,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.12,0:00:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know the long words,\Nthe dinosaur so and so
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.53,0:01:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attains a length of so and so many feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.76,0:01:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would always stop and he would say,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.64,0:01:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You know what that means?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.67,0:01:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It means, if the dinosaur’s\Nstanding on our front yard
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.77,0:01:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and your bedroom window, you\Nknow, is on the second floor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.36,0:01:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you’d see out the window his\Nhead standing looking at you."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.17,0:01:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would translate everything
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.74,0:01:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I learned to translate everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.99,0:01:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it’s the same disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.56,0:01:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I read something,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.56,0:01:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always translate it in the best I can
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.63,0:01:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into what does it really mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.95,0:01:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember my father\Ntalking, talking, talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.97,0:01:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you go into the museum, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.61,0:01:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are great rocks\Nwhich have long cuts,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.91,0:01:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grooves in them, from glacier
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.59,0:01:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember, the\Nfirst time going there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.47,0:01:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he stopped there and explained to me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.76,0:01:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the ice moving and grinding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.28,0:01:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can hear the voice, practically
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.35,0:01:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he would tell me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.60,0:01:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How do you think we know
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.42,0:01:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"there were glaciers in the past?”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.18,0:01:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He’d point out, “That's\Nwhat we're looking at,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.26,0:01:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that these rocks are found in New York
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.81,0:01:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and so there must have\Nbeen ice in New York.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.74,0:01:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He understood.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.08,0:01:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A thing that was very\Nimportant about my father
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.55,0:01:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not the facts, but the process.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.99,0:01:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we find out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.06,0:02:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the consequence\Nof finding such a rock?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.72,0:02:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that’s the kind of guy he was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.30,0:02:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t think he ever\Nsuccessfully went to college.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.82,0:02:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, he did teach\Nhimself a great deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.09,0:02:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He read a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.39,0:02:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He liked the rational mind
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.05,0:02:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and liked those things which
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.50,0:02:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be understood by thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.41,0:02:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s not hard to understand\NI got interested in science.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.27,0:02:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got a laboratory in my room.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.30,0:02:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also played a trick on my mother there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.87,0:02:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We put sodium ferrocyanide in the towels
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.19,0:02:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and another substance, an iron salt,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.96,0:02:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably alum, in the soap
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.75,0:02:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when they come together,\Nthey make blue ink.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.75,0:02:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we were supposed to\Nfool my mother, you see.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.92,0:02:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would wash her hands and\Nthen when she dried them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.36,0:02:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her hands would turn blue,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.38,0:02:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we didn’t think the\Ntowel would turn blue.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.60,0:02:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, she was horrified,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.98,0:02:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the screams of, “My good linen towels!”
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.49,0:02:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she was always cooperative.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.65,0:02:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She never was afraid of the experiments.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.96,0:02:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bridge partners, would tell her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.47,0:02:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How can you let the\Nchild have a laboratory?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.92,0:02:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He'll blow up the house,"\Nand all this kind of talk
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.87,0:02:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she just said, “It’s worth it.”
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.29,0:02:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, “ It’s worth the risk.”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.98,0:03:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took later solid\Ngeometry and trigonometry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.97,0:03:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In solid geometry was the first time
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.41,0:03:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had any mathematical difficulties.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.93,0:03:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was my only experience with how
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.16,0:03:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it must feel to the ordinary human being
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.84,0:03:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a then I discovered what was wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.22,0:03:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The diagrams that were being drawn
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.05,0:03:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the blackboard were three-dimensional
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.37,0:03:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was thinking of\Nthem as plane diagrams
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.17,0:03:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I couldn’t understand\Nwhat the hell was going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.30,0:03:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a mistake in the orientation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.57,0:03:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he would draw pictures\Nand I would see a parallelogram
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.23,0:03:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he called it a square,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.97,0:03:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was tilted out\Nof the plane, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.68,0:03:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I, “Oh God, this thing\Ndoesn’t make any sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.57,0:03:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is he talking about?”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.34,0:03:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a terrifying experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.20,0:03:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Butterflies in my stomach kind of feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.64,0:03:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was just a dumb mistake.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.12,0:03:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I suspect that this\Nkind of a dumb mistake
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.15,0:03:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is quite common to people\Nlearning mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.53,0:03:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the missing\Nunderstanding is to mistake
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.88,0:03:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it is you’re supposed to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.37,0:03:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isn’t the question of\Nlearning anything precisely,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.59,0:04:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but of learning that there’s\Nsomething exciting over there
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.05,0:04:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that the same\Nthing happened with my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.17,0:04:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father never really\Nknew anything in detail,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.88,0:04:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but would tell me what’s\Ninteresting about the world
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.47,0:04:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where, if you look, you’ll\Nfind still more interests,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.26,0:04:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that later I would say,\N“Well, this is going to be good.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.64,0:04:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I know this has got\Nsomething to do with this,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.14,0:04:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"which is hot stuff.”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.65,0:04:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This kind of feeling of what was important
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.11,0:04:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is the key.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.30,0:04:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key was somehow to\Nknow what was important
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.46,0:04:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what was not important,\Nwhat was exciting,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.04,0:04:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I can’t learn everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.47,0:04:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(electronic instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.50,0:04:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that I loved was,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.28,0:04:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that I read was serious,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.16,0:04:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn’t written for a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.33,0:04:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn’t like children’s things.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.06,0:04:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, for one thing I was very,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.65,0:04:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very, and still am, very sensitive
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.72,0:04:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and very worried about was that\Nthe thing to be dead honest,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.64,0:04:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it isn’t fixed up so it looks easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.99,0:04:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Details purposely left out
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.82,0:05:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or slightly erroneous explanations,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.03,0:05:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to get away with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.49,0:05:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was intolerable.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.08,0:05:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kind of try to imagine what would
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.40,0:05:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have happened to me if\NI’d lived in today’s era.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.04,0:05:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m rather horrified.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.54,0:05:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there are too many books,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.12,0:05:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the mind gets boggled.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.87,0:05:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I got interested, I would\Nhave so many things to look at,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.10,0:05:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would go crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.66,0:05:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s too easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.28,0:05:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(tape reversing)