牛頓一輩子有2個敵人，一個是大數學家萊布尼茨，一個是大應用數學家虎克；

為什麼牛頓老跟人鬧矛盾？

因為最偉大的物理學家牛頓和最偉大的數學家高斯都是完美主義者；他們都喜歡發表成熟de、完整的、系統的東西；但當有人搶先發表類似的東西的時候；牛頓會去據理力爭；高斯的態度是let it be；有人說，因為高斯的風格，使得數學的發展推遲了50年；

還有一個例子是大物理學家玻爾茲曼；在他的理論體系建立以後；只要隨便推推；就能遍地開花；但玻爾茲曼沒有去做；

愛因斯坦1905年發表“布朗運動”論文的時候；就很感嘆，很不解，為什麼玻爾茲曼把這麼好de桃子留給了後人qu摘？

看看愛因斯坦對玻爾茲曼的態度：

A very early judgement by Einstein on Boltzmann, based presumably on Boltzmann’s lectures, can be found in a letter of his to his girlfriend, Mileva Mari`c, which says:

“The Boltzmann is magnificent. I have almost finished it. He is a masterly expounder. I am firmly convinced that the principles of the theory are right, which means that I am convinced that in the case of gases we are really dealing with discrete mass points of definite finite size, which are moving according to certain conditions. Boltzmann very correctly emphasizes that the hypothetical forces between the molecules are not an essential component of the theory, as the whole energy is of
the kinetic kind. This is a step forward in the dynamical explanation of physical phenomena.”；

In a letter to Marcel Grossmann one can read:

“Lately I have been engrossed in Boltzmann’s work on the kinetic theory of gases and these last few days I wrote a short paper myself that
provides the keystone in the chain of proofs that he started. [. . . ] I’ll probably publish it in the Annalen” ；

Concerning the second point (i.e. the fact that Einstein got a more detailed knowledge of Boltzmann’s work and a great admiration for him), it seems sufficient to recall that, in an exposition to a wide public of the theory of relativity, a subject not at all related to Boltzmann’s work, Einstein writes in the introduction:

“I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought
to be left to the tailor and the cobbler.”；