"I never think of the future; I find it comes soon enough."
That was one of Albert Einstein's semi-mystical sound bites, offered when he'd grown from being a radical, brilliant mathematical genius into a white-haired old man with a beguiling penchant for philosophy.
He was still a genius, but he no longer set the agenda for mathematics and physics.
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