Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) New Zealand physicist. One student in Rutherford's lab was very hard-working. Rutherford had noticed it and asked one evening:
- Do you work in the mornings too?
- Yes, - proudly answered the student sure he would be commended.
- But when do you think? - amazed Rutherford.

Albert Einstein

Einstein's profession: In response to a fellow train passenger, October 31, 1930, who asked him
his occupation, he answered that he was an artist's model, reflecting Einstein's feeling that he was constantly posing for sculptures and paintings.

Albert Einstein

After the birth of his sister Maja, the two and a half year old Albert Einstein was told he would now have something to play with. After looking at the baby he complained "Yes, but where are its wheels".

Albert Einstein

In 1946 a South African child, Tyffany Williams expressed in a letter her surprise that Einstein was still alive. He answered: "I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There *will* be a remedy for this, however.

Sir Isaac Newton

The English mathematician John Wallis (1616-1703) was a friend of Isaac Newton. According to his diary, Newton once bragged to Wallis about his little dog Diamond.

"My dog Diamond knows some mathematics. Today he proved two theorems before lunch."

"Your dog must be a genius," said Wallis.

"Oh I wouldn't go that far," replied Newton. "The first theorem had an error and the second had a pathological exception."