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   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   john larkin  wrote or quoted:   
   >Academics seem to enjoy ridiculing people that they see as wrong; you   
   >can see that here. That's a bad environment for inventing stuff.   
      
   |It is interesting to note that Bohr was an outspoken critic   
   |of Einstein's light quantum (prior to 1924), that he   
   |discouraged Dirac's work on the relativistic electron theory   
   |(telling him, incorrectly, that Klein and Gordon had already   
   |succeeded), that he opposed Pauli's introduction of the   
   |neutrino. that he ridiculed Yukawa's theory of the meson, and   
   |that he disparaged Feynman's approach to quantum electrodynamics.   
   |   
   footnote on page 23 in "Introduction to Elementary Particles" (1987)   
   - David Griffiths (David J. Griffiths)   
      
     And when Dirac met Feynman, the first thing he said (as I remember   
     having read somewhere) was, "I have an equation; what do you have?".   
      
     It was also Paul Dirac (1902/1984) who told one young student   
     that his theory, "was not even wrong", and who AFAIK, thereby,   
     invented this expression!   
      
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