You're not a Scientist if you don't go by anything under than what you observes from systematic study/experiment or logically deduce.
Proper Scientists can oppose each other not difference in subjective bias but through different objective experimental data.
There are plenty of other so-called abrasive or odd Mathematicians/Scientists in history. My main areas of study are Mathematics and Computer Science so I name more in those areas (though not all listed are necessarily Mathematicians): Kurt Godel, Grigori Perelman, John Nash, Theodore Kaczynski, Nikola Tesla, ...
I could keep going but the bottom line is not the abrasive/"whatever you what to call or define them" genius is not all that odd, certainly not the majority I would think.
Proper Scientists can oppose each other not difference in subjective bias but through different objective experimental data.
There are plenty of other so-called abrasive or odd Mathematicians/Scientists in history. My main areas of study are Mathematics and Computer Science so I name more in those areas (though not all listed are necessarily Mathematicians): Kurt Godel, Grigori Perelman, John Nash, Theodore Kaczynski, Nikola Tesla, ...
I could keep going but the bottom line is not the abrasive/"whatever you what to call or define them" genius is not all that odd, certainly not the majority I would think.