“It was about 1957, and I broke my ankle skiing, and was laid up for quite a while. A friend of mine, actually our kids' pediatrician, brought me a book called The Nature of the Universe. It was by... a famous British astronomer. That's really interesting. And then, of course, it was competing at that time with what later became the dominant theory of the universe — the Big Bang Theory…Everything I've written about since then has been a learning experience, and that's the pleasure of being a reporter — especially on a newspaper like this one, which encourages reporters young or old to find areas of fascination and pursue them,” he said.