Einstein - a true scientist in everything

There is some noise in mass media related to the latest discovery of the apparent philandering by the great scientist.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Albert Einstein had half a dozen girlfriends and told his wife they showered him with "unwanted" affection, according to letters released on Monday that shed light on his extra-marital affairs.















He was reputed to have been a charmer who bewitched Marilyn Monroe, and had 10 lovers outside of two marriages.

Of course, the layman and the amateur of the press and the layman and the amateur of the public will find this information satisfying their lowly craving for scandalous tidbit.

But, as everyone with a tiniest understanding of the scientific method will tell you, this seemingly demeaning information only increases the respect and admiration for the relentless and faithful application of the basic rule of the scientific research by the great physicist. See here:

Keep in mind that when a lay person says "theory", he or she typically means "an unproven and untested guess." This is very different from what a scientist means when he or she says "theory", and is actually synonymous with what a scientist means when he or she says "hypothesis".

This distinction is very important and has caused no end of problems[sic!].

Keep in mind that, to a scientist, a theory is a hypothesis which has been tested and found correct numerous times; to a lay person, a theory is just a guess.

The great man, unlike many of us mere mortals, was not satisfied with the pitiful level of knowledge we, the males, have about the mysterious and strange better half of humanity. So, like a true scientist, he formed a theory and proceeded with obtaining the test data by all means available. I am more than sure that somewhere in the archives we shall find a manuscript titled, in Einstein's humble manner: "About some aspects of inter-gender communications". Or something in that vein.

And this manuscript shall change the life as we know it today!