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401 The other day he wrote to me: Dear daddy, do you know what is infinity plus infinity? I do۔It is a big zero۔۔۔۔۔۔then he gave me some sort of an idea of plotting points in a circle--- starting at a point in and returning to it۔When I told him infinity plus infinity was very special, he was very reluctant to accept it۔He said; Three infinities are infinity but four are back to zero۔Q: A: Do you give him special attention? I would like to۔But he is so independent, so reluctant to accept any explanation۔۔۔۔that reminds me, the first research paper I wrote was literary۔۔۔۔establishing the date on which Ghalib changed nom de plume۔The Illustrated Weekly once had rejected a short story I had written۔But the Weekly did publish a short article in the early forties۔I have forgotten the title; it was an adolescent literary effort۔Q: creative career۔۔۔constant exposure? A: Q: A: People say the receipt of Nobel prize often signals the end of a If the recipient is a scientist, his work suffers on account of That is absolutely right۔Have you got to give up active research? No, no look here, am spending 21 days in India on this trip۔I have never spent 21 days on anything like this before۔And everybody tells me that it's very important that I should talk to people۔It's incredible that I have spent a month already, preparing, talking, preparing my lecture etc۔It's incredible strain۔- "All science-physics in particular – is concerned with discovering WHY things happen as they do۔The WHYs so adduced must clearly be 'deeper', more universal, more axiomatic, less susceptible to direct experimental testing than the immediate phenomenon we week to explain۔The search for the universal, the search for the whole, the search for unity; that is what gives science its meaning and beauty۔' " Prof۔Abdus Salam in his Herbert Spencer Lecture- 1979