Dr. Einstein told Niccolo Tucci, who interviewed him for the New Yorker (November 22, 1948). Learning that the physicist spent an hour each evening reading aloud in Sophocles, Thucydides, and Aeschylus, Tucci remarked, "So you too, Herr Professor, have gone back to the Greeks?" Einstein replied:
"But I have never gone away from them. How can an educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science."See also letters from Albert Einstein to Constantinos Karatheodori and ensuing debate held in New York in 1992 by members of Imperial College over provenance of theory of relativity.
