Neville says he has met men he respects but considers none his superior, and that even standing in Einstein's presence he would not think him greater than himself.

He once had a chance to meet Einstein, whom he would have loved to meet for his contribution to mathematics and physics, but the meeting never came about.

He recently read a statement by Einstein rejoicing in the uniformity of nature's laws but calling survival of the brain's disintegration unthinkable, and uses it to urge condemning no one.