“On an afternoon which is ever present in my memory, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the City Park, and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe’s Faust.” — from My Inventions by Nikola Tesla
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“…associating with these men, and hearing them play, I acquired a strong taste for music, and used very often to time my walks so as to hear on week days the anthem in King’s College Chapel. This gave me intense pleasure, so that my backbone would sometimes shiver.” — Autobiography of Charles Darwin
