<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.html</a></p>
<p>in the science journalist Winifred Gallagher’s words: “The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor ‘Paradise Lost’ was dashed off by a party animal.”</p>