This is an education by itself. Often one gets the insider dough on famous scientists, and my favourite sandbag is Thomas Alva Edison whom I have heard being lavished upon as a wonderfully creative inventor. I read his biography some years back and was horrified to learn most of his inventions were bought off from other down at the heel innovators or slightly better but unsupported people like me. His wife had financed his laboratory and he had to make money every day, or else…

There have been articles and books on Einstein, showing he had his feet of clay as it were, and the fact that much of the glory showered upon him he may not have deserved in reality… in his later life, he became just a speaker going around the world explaining the theory of relativity and most of the audience would not understand but feel awed or overawed. Something like that is happening to Dr. Stephen Hawking today. People listen to him, read him and fail to make head or tail out of his brash hypotheses.

What a wonderful world, to quote Satchmo.

Cheerz!

Max