Tetragrammaton

I've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger,

I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I didn't have time to learn, and I had no much patience with what's called the humanities,

even though in the university there were humanities that you had to take.

I tried my best to avoid somehow to learn anything there and to work at it.

It's only afterwards when I've gotten older and I'm more relaxed that I've spread out a little bit.

I've learned to draw and I read a little bit,

but I'm really still a very one-sided person

and don't know a great deal.

I have a limited intelligence,

and I've used it in a particular direction.

You're really missing out.

Art has so much potential to stimulate the mind.

Tell me about your family. Tell me about your father.

Yes. Well, we had the Encyclopedia Britannica at home.

Even when I was a small boy, he used to sit me on his lap and read to me from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

And we would re-say about dinosaurs.

And maybe it would be talking about the brontosaurus or something.

And they would say something like,

this thing is 25 feet high and the head is six feet across, you see.

And so he'd stop always and say, you know, let's see what that means.

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