I like to study shoe prints. You've stepped to me before.
If you had walked through the plesant Tuscan countryside in the 1890's you might have come upon a somewhat long-haired teenage high school dropout on the road to pavia. His teachers in Germany had told him that he would never amount to anything, that his questions destroyed classroom discipline, that he would be better off out of school. So he left and wandered, delighted in the freedom on northern italy, where he could ruminate on matters remote from the subjects he had been forced-fed in his highly disciplined Prussian schoolroom. His name was Albert Einstein, and his ruminations changed the world.