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People hate things that contradict their deeply-held beliefs. But since ideas that contradict deeply-held beliefs are the most interesting (see the history of physics for example), anyone on the hunt for interesting ideas will tend to offend a lot of people.
The difference between someone on the hunt for interesting ideas and a controversialist is that for the former, controversy is collateral damage. E.g. Darwin, who sat on natural selection for 15 years, no doubt partly because he feared the resulting controversy.
The idea hunters will often find themselves engaged with controversialists, though, and they tend to lose (in the short term) to the clever, energetic ones, because for them controversy is the goal, whereas the idea hunters want to get back to thinking.
Someone who has nothing better to do can always have the last word in a dispute.
Physics progresses one funeral at a time...
There does seem to be something about the love of controversy that drives people on to find interesting ideas. Don't think it is always a commitment to truth-seeking.
Yes, that's an interesting point. I don't think it's love of controversy per se, but there is a kind of naughtiness that helps a lot in the search for new ideas. E.g. Crick and Watson both had it.
It's a blurred, grey line. Often the best mechanism here is to look at what they accomplish--though, granted, that takes time.
Sooooo you consider yourself akin to Darwin?
Since hist of physics came up: Good example might be Copernicus (who mostly sat on his model for 30 years, primarily for fear of controversy) vs. Giordano Bruno, who couldn't wait to tell the Church how dumb they were (and was burned at the stake)
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