As
a boy, I was as innocent of and uninterested in sexual matters
(and would have long remained so, if they had not been forcibly thrust
on me) as I am today in, say, the theory of relativity.
Another good example of how to use scientific concepts in literature. And the text is also a lesson of modesty on two topics which people usually tend to brag: sex and the theory of relativity, as the following about anecdote shows:
In the 1920´s a journalist asked the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington if it was true that only three people in the world understood the general theory of relativity , After a moment of hesitation, Eddington is said to have replied:
- I was wondering who the third one might be!
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