In his preface to “The Catalogue of Galaxies and Subcompact Galaxies” (also known simply as “The Red Book”), Zwicky described his colleagues “scatterbrains,” “sycophants and plain thieves” who “have no love for any of the lone wolves who are not fawners and apple polishers,” who “doctor their observational data to hide their shortcomings and to make the majority of the astronomers accept and believe in some of their most prejudicial and erroneous presentations and interpretations of facts,” and who therefore publish “useless trash in the bulging astronomical journals.
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Zwicky portrays the hostility and resistance of the scientific community that he continually encountered as a scientific prophet and visionary. |
