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In 1956/1970 Gamow wrote that much later, when he was discussing cosmologicalproblems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmologicalterm was the "biggest blunder" he ever made in his life. But the cosmologicalconstant rears its ugly head again and again and again. Apparently, Einsteinhimself has never used the apercu "biggest blunder"; nevertheless a vastliterature grew up around this notion and associated it with Einstein. Thepresent work is prompted by questions put by Mario Livio in his latest book"Brilliant Blunders" as to the phrase "biggest blunder": Did Einstein actuallysay, "biggest blunder"? I show that in 1947 Einstein wrote Lemaitre that hefound it "very ugly" that the field law of gravitation should be composed oftwo logically independent terms. Earlier, in 1922 Einstein wrote Max Born thathe committed "a monumental blunder some time ago". In 1965 Born commented:"Here Einstein admits that the considerations which led him to the positive-rayexperiments were wrong: 'a monumental [capital] blunder'". It is likely thatwhen Einstein met Gamow he formulated his views in his native German, andperhaps he told Gamow that suggesting his cosmological constant was a"blunder". I suggest that, Einstein perhaps told Gamow that the cosmologicalconstant was a "capital blunder" or a "monumental blunder", and Gamow couldhave embellished Einstein's words to become the famous apercu "biggestblunder".

George Gamow and Albert Einstein: Did Einstein say the cosmological constant was the "biggest blunder" he ever made in his life?