OF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY OR GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS

Abstract

Sitting around a round table, the editors-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Science rolled over in their comfortable leather chairs. A small problem arose and demanded a quick decision: what to do with Marie Curie? Obviously the presence of the scientist had not been considered earlier, when the biographical section of the encyclopedia was named "The Man". But there would be no way to leave the first person to win two Nobel prizes out of history. Here was the stumbling block. A silence took over the room, interspersed by the tinkling of ice hitting the whiskey glasses. "Put her with Pierre." The matter was settled without major drama. It would not be an excellent housewife who would disturb the scientific rigor shared so painstakingly between those distinguished gentlemen. Marie Curie passed through the hands of the editors like a solitary hiccup unable to disturb the beauty of the great discourse.