Zwicki

How is it that a man with so meager an understanding of the Jaws of physics could have been so prescient? My own opinion is that he embodied a remarkable combination of charat.-ter traits: enough understanding of theoretical physics to get things right qualitatively, if not quantitatively; so intense a curiosity as to keep up with everything happening in all of physics and astronomy; an ability to discern, intuitively, in a way that few others could, connections between disparate phenomena; and, of not least importance, such great faith in his own inside track to truth that he had no fear whatsoever of making a fool of himself by his speculations. He knew he was right (though he often was not), and no mountain of evidence could convince him to the contrary