Readers Respond About Arrogance, Confidence, Brilliance, Humility, and Stupidity

Congratulations to J. Murray Gibson for his much needed comments on the arrogance of some physicists. Let me give a specific example of such arrogance, heard during a lunch conversation at Bell Labs in the good old days. A very senior administrator of research commented about the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Peter Debye: “He could not have been that good a scientist or he would have become a physicist.”