The late lamented Ian Dury wrote a wonderful song that was released as the B side of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick, called "There ain't half been some clever bastards."

One verse goes;

Einstein can't be classed as witless,
He claimed atoms were the littlest, *
When you did a bit of splitiness,
Frightened everybody shitless.

Mind you, ignoring science (to a degree) my favourite verse goes;

Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers,
He must have been a pencil squeezer,
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.

He was one of my heros, that guy...

* yes, yes, I know he didn't, but Nils Bohr doesn't scan as good I suppose!