“My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.”
“When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.”
“I learned Einstein’s theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.”
“My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.”
“All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.”
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