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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.
One thing that makes this world unbearable is the tendency to stick labels on people forever. This makes no sense as people can evolve over time, providing others don’t put them in small boxes.
What's interesting is how these distinctions are not necessarily personal traits. On the subject of gravity, Einstein was your idea hunter. On quantum physics, he was your controversialist.
They also tend to lose because controversialists use the massive leverage of their herd of ‘believers’, who are easily manipulated into action against the heretic idea hunters.
Which goes back to Copernicus and Galileo.
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