"... according to what Veblen told me, the association between Einstein and Gödel arose in the following way. Veblen felt that he had to look out for Gödel, and spent quite a lot of time talking with him. And then, he thought that he might perhaps get Einstein to take over part of this responsibility. And that seemed to go so extremely well that Veblen removed himself, essentially, from the picture. Einstein and Gödel remained very close. They tended to come to the Institute together, and leave the Institute together, very often. Of course, Gödel's interest in the theory of relativity theory undoubtedly goes back to this association with Einstein. ... I don't think he had any interest in physics before that. I know he had some philosophical interests, but I think the specific interest in the theory of relativity, in which he did write some papers and create some results of significance, that goes back to that association."
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