People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.