Albert Einstein on Curiosity
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.”
— Albert Einstein, Life magazine, May 2, 1955
The first time I fell in love, I fell hard for a complicated, brilliant boy who turned into an even more complicated, increasingly unpleasant young man.
After our marriage failed, he became a drug addict and it affected his mind. He is middle-aged now and brilliance has dimmed considerably now and that’s one of the saddest things I can think of.
Our son has autism and while I hate to armchair diagnose someone who has (as far as I know) never been evaluated for that disorder, it would not surprise me if I found out that my first husband was somewhere on that spectrum.
He has told me that it wouldn’t surprise him, either.
As I was researching for this post, I came across this article about a list of conditions that Einstein gave to his first wife, as they attempted to hold their marriage together at the end.
