Those Kooky Nobel Laureats!

[Madeline]

Forget Brad and Angelina. It’s time to put the spotlight back where it belongs—on history’s biggest nerds! We’ve got all the juiciest gossip about the world’s greatest minds.

mental_floss Blog 7 Nobel Prize Stories Ripped from the Tabloids!

Man, I love Mental Floss Magazine!

Okay, so scientists....any more rational or well-mannered than the rest of us?

Discuss.

 

[eagleseven]

Okay, so scientists....any more rational or well-mannered than the rest of us?

I assure you, we are absolutely insane.

 

[Madeline]

Okay, so scientists....any more rational or well-mannered than the rest of us?

I assure you, we are absolutely insane.

rdean says you guys are only 6% crazy. I knew he was unreliable!

BTW, just how fugly could Marie Currie have been, that Albert Einstein said no woman would have to be threatened by her?

 

[eagleseven]

rdean says you guys are only 6% crazy. I knew he was unreliable!

We six-percenters are the most dangerous...as we not only make discoveries, but have the will to exploit them.

BTW, just how fugly could Marie Currie have been, that Albert Einstein said no woman would have to be threatened by her?

I blame the radiation sickness.

(I love Mental Floss, too)

 

[Old Rocks]

As intelligent as the people that win the Nobels are, they are still people, just as prone to doing the things that all people do as the rest of us are.

 

[IanC]

there are two types of genius. the ones that are like ordinary people except they work harder and are extremely focused. and the free spirits that have ideas that mere mortals could never imagine.

something about our society has discouraged or buried the latter.