Engineers never liked the unexplained, whereas physicists lived for it. - Gregory Benford

He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

Hubris. They disliked questions unless there were clear answers. They believed so much in their method that they conjured up certainty out of undeniable risk.

There were the usual anxieties, starkly revealing the uneasiness that ordinary intellectuals had with science.