Everything around us is a gift of science. It is all the famous scientists we need to bow down to. Here know some interesting facts about the world's most famous scientists.
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.
“Brain-washing” in a Tub
Ben Franklin showed his neighbors his birthday suit 5.00am each morning while sitting near an open window writing. He claimed the air aroused his creativity.
Dr. Nakamatsu also meditated in a bathroom tiled in 24-karat gold,, according to him gold tiles blocked out radio waves that harmed his thinking.
Bathroom for the Brain
Sigmund Freud, the dignified cocaine addict, published his Cocaine Papers in 1887. He called them “song of praise to this magical substance.”
Singing to the Powder
Einstein’s secretary once got an anonymous call asking where Einstein lived. The secretary declined to respond. Whereupon the caller admitted he was Einstein himself.
Pythagoras forbade his followers from touching or eating beans. Legend says this caused the mathematician’s death, since he refused to find refuge in a bean field .
Beans, The Magical Fruit
Is how far Isaac was standing when he saw an apple fall and postulated that it’s the same invisible force that is acting on the moon. The apple never fell on his head.
Not Far From The Tree
Newton had two nervous breakdowns in his life, once in 1678, and again in 1693. Historians credit the second breakdown to chemical poisoning, due to his alchemy practices.
Nervous Nelly
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