And not that many years later he's teaching college. No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond reasonable doubt. As Children We. . . This is by Donna Harlow Gelter who is a very talented writer.