Surprising Facts About Famous Scientists

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

These days the world’s most innovative scientists don’t really get as much attention as, say, the Kardashians. But maybe they should. Because real, profound genius often comes hand-in-hand with being absolutely bonkers. Seriously: the lives of some of the most famous scientists of all-time read like the biography of an insane circus clown. Besides, it’s famous scientists who got us where we are today. It’s probably time we all learned a bit more about them. Here are some facts about history’s brilliant (and often eccentric) scientists.

Relative Politics

If you ask many people to think of someone smart, there’s a pretty good chance their mind will immediately go to Albert Einstein. He’s like the dictionary definition of intelligence.

Which is why it’s so surprising that the man himself was pretty vocal about his own shortcomings. Case in point: shortly after Israel became a country, Einstein was offered the presidency… and turned it down. The reason? He said he no head for large problems.

“Brain-washing” in a Tub

Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who patented more than 3,300 inventions in his 73-year-old life, got his creativity from sinking himself underwater for hours at a time. Point? “To starve the brain of oxygen. Zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention.”

Bathroom for the Brain

Dr. Nakamatsu also meditated in a bathroom tiled in 24-karat gold, since – according to him – gold tiles blocked out radio waves that harmed his thinking.

Tesla’s Tastes

Nikola Tesla, physicist, detested overweight women and jewelry of any kind – particularly pearls.

Possibly related: it’s a distinct possibility that Tesla died a virgin. The man was known for eschewing physical intimacy… in exchange for simply inventing basically everything.

Would you make that trade?

The Interview

Researchers who wanted to work for Thomas Edison had to sample soup. If they seasoned it before tasting, they were fired, since it showed they were biased.

But before we start thinking Thomas Edison is cool… let’s also remember he once electrocuted a circus elephant in front of a sold-out crowd, just to prove that Nikola Tesla’s alternating current form of distributed electricity was more dangerous than his own direct current.

Imagine murdering an elephant over a business grudge. That’s a bad look.

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