My Childhood Home Backed Onto

When I Moved To Stanford I Began To Pursue The Line Of Research I Have Been Following Ever Since, Namely Trying To Understand The Larger Implications Of Fractional Quantum Hall Discovery.

As A Consequence While We Had A Roof Over Our Heads, Food On The Table, And Clothes To Wear To School We Were Constantly Conscious Of Being Of Modest Means.

It Is Ironic That Einsteins Most Creative Work, The General Theory Of Relativity, Should Boil Down To Conceptualizing Space As A Medium When His Original Premise [in Special Relativity] Was That No Such Medium Existed[..].

My Mother Also Had Us Take Piano Lessons, And This Had A Similar Effect. I Hated Those Lessons, But I Now Play Regularly For Pleasure And Have Even Tried My Hand At Composing.

But The Need For Conflict To Expose Prejudice And Unclear Reasoning, Which Is Deeply Embedded In My Philosophy Of Science, Has Its Origin In These Debates.