No, I'm not. Are you not referring to the guy at the Smithsonian. I gave up, as have many scientists, on Scientific American---they appear to have adopted an activist-leftist bias. A far better one that actually does represent scientists, is The American Scientist.
There are two keys: Replicability and Empirical observation.
I read that, at first, Einstein had trouble with math.
No she's not. This is a Creat folktale from the distant past.