Not sure if this is quite in the spirit of the topic, but one story I particularly like concerns John Napier, the 16th century astronomer and mathematician who invented logarithms and the decimal point (also the machine gun, apparently). As a way of testing which of his servants was stealing from him, he kept a black cockerel in a dark room which he told them was so sensitive it could distinguish between a thief and an honest man just by touch. So he made them all go into the room one by one and stroke his cock, which they all did. The guilty party, however, obviously didn't want to get caught out, so he only said that he had stroked it. Unfortunately, the bird was covered in soot, so the thief was revealed as the only one with clean hands.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
