Great Scientists

[L. Michael Hill]

In article <1995Feb3.182154.12157 at ivax>, fcrump at indyvax.iupui.edu says:
>
>In response to the great scientists with strange behaviors...
>Peter Mitchell was the first to come up with the idea of the chemiosmotic 
>theory in mitochondria and atp synthesis.. lived in a castle in solitude...
>worked by himself and was sort of laughed at... interesting story I think.
>
How about Charles Darwin when he saw a beetle and picked it up.  He
saw a second and picked that one up in the other hand.  He then saw
a third one which he really wanted.  Not knowing what to do, he
shoved one of the ones he was holding into his mouth in order to
pick up the third one.  The one in the mouth emmitted some kind of
stuff which made him spit out the beetle and also lose the other
two!