He actually was able to open a locked bank vault. When he was about 12 he was taking apart and repairing radios and gadgets that neighbors brought to him. He “invented”{ his own calculus when he was in high schools rather than the rote stuff in the textbook. Sort like Newton himself did, thinking of it as a tool to answer problems. Very deep into the concrete world. Which is why Niels Bohr lied him. Bohr was, I think, much “deeper” into reality. Deeply curious about sensible things.
He also used to leave the secure facility through a hole in the fence and enter through the front gate, giving him the record of having enter far more times than he left.
It was the only way he could persuade them to fix the damned fence!