“So at that point Einstein was a weapon for me - a way to show off. I understood that everyone thought he was smart, maybe the smartest person of all, and that by wanting to be like him I’d seem smart, too. Is that too cynical? Am I being unfair to my seven-year-old self? Maybe.”
— Steve Strogatz, “A Walk down Mercer Street” an essay from the collection My Einstien
