Physicists Insulting Physicists

Highlights from the timeless battle between physicists

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And a review of the book written by @grahamfarmelo, who authored a biography of Paul Dirac titled "The Strangest Man"

https://t.co/lRwSCljXxV

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"Are you aware of the fact that Albert has become an alchemist?...Well, Erwin is also an alchemist these days."

Niels Bohr being interviewed by John Moffat(1950s).

Contained in "Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics" by John Moffat

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For more context on Moffat's correspondence:
https://t.co/ieZQt0XZbn

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My thanks to @phalpern and @CormacORafferty for providing corrections and context!

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CORRECTION
"...Albert is an Old Fool."
- Erwin Schrödinger in conversation with John Moffat (1950s)

Quoted in @phalpern's book "Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat"

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Although they respectfully debated over a unified theory, Einstein and Schrödinger were great friends and agreed more often than not.

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@CormacORafferty @phalpern That's a great point! Apologies, I'll try to add the context / double-check references for future quotes.

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"Albert is an Old Fool"
- Erwin Schrödinger to John Moffat
(November 3, 1925)

Albert Einstein Duplicate Archive, Princeton, NJ, 22-004
Quoted in @phalpern's book "Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat"

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@phalpern Thanks for the correction! I took the wrong reference from chapter 3 :(.

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N. David Mermin quoting a joke he heard from Rudolf Peierls.

Contained in the book "Boojums all the way through: communicating science in a prosaic age." (1990)

https://t.co/PuawAaWqI9

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R.O. Redman roasting Fred Hoyle
(2005)

From the contribution "Red giants: then and now" by John Faulkner
Contained in the book "The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle" edited by Douglas Gough

https://t.co/8J5pZI6Opu

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"I don't want to be quoted insulting people. It's not nice. Some of these people are my friends."
- Murray Gell-Mann, after a series of demeaning comments about other physicists
(Dec 17, 2013)

https://t.co/YYGcz1EVMs

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"Einstein was confused, not the quantum theory."
- Stephen Hawking
(June 21 1997)

Lecture at the Amsterdam Symposium on Gravity, Black Holes, and String Theory

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Wolfgang Pauli, Master of Physics Insults
https://t.co/A9jiLDnFPY

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"That is not only not right; it is not even wrong"
- Wolfgang Pauli to Unnamed Physicist

https://t.co/ITWV3pVvhG

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"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways... If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton making fun of Robert Hooke's short stature
https://t.co/L30VBU1pNC