James Gleick Quote

By the time Carl was four, was actively lobbying against a first-grade science book proposed for California schools. It began with pictures of a mechanical wind-up dog, a real dog, and a motorcycle, and for each the same question: What makes it move? The proposed answer—Energy makes it move—enraged him.

James Gleick

By the time Carl was four, was actively lobbying against a first-grade science book proposed for California schools. It began with pictures of a mechanical wind-up dog, a real dog, and a motorcycle, and for each the same question: What makes it move? The proposed answer—Energy makes it move—enraged him.

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