牛顿一辈子有2个敌人，一个是大数学家莱布尼茨，一个是大应用数学家虎克；

为什么牛顿老跟人闹矛盾？

因为最伟大的物理学家牛顿和最伟大的数学家高斯都是完美主义者；他们都喜欢发表成熟de、完整的、系统的东西；但当有人抢先发表类似的东西的时候；牛顿会去据理力争；高斯的态度是let it be；有人说，因为高斯的风格，使得数学的发展推迟了50年；

还有一个例子是大物理学家玻尔兹曼；在他的理论体系建立以后；只要随便推推；就能遍地开花；但玻尔兹曼没有去做；

爱因斯坦1905年发表“布朗运动”论文的时候；就很感叹，很不解，为什么玻尔兹曼把这么好de桃子留给了后人qu摘？

看看爱因斯坦对玻尔兹曼的态度：

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.”；