Despite great knowledge and insight, scientists aren't always nice people—on the contrary! In the examples here, Nikola Tesla quit his job working for Thomas Edison after a dispute about a bonus, Robert Hooke accused Isaac Newton of stealing his ideas about optics, Plato declared that the works of Democritus should be burned, and James Watson and Francis Crick discovered DNA, but they essentially ignored the contribution of female colleague Rosalind Franklin. Foibles abound in this humorous collection, illustrated by cartoonist Sidney Harris.