Richard Rhodes Quote
Was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the miracle of a compass his father showed him excited him so much, he remembered, that he trembled and grew cold. It seemed to him then that there had to be something behind objects that lay deeply hidden.624
Richard Rhodes
Was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the miracle of a compass his father showed him excited him so much, he remembered, that he trembled and grew cold. It seemed to him then that there had to be something behind objects that lay deeply hidden.624