John Horgan on Murray Gell-Mann
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“One of the things that makes Gell-Mann so insufferable is that he is almost always right.”
“I had barely sat down when he began to tell me... that science writers were "ignoramuses" and a "terrible breed" who invariably got things wrong: only scientists were really qualified to present their work to the masses. As time went on, I felt less offended, since it became clear that Gell-Mann held most of his scientific colleagues in contempt as well.”