Seen on facebook:
In the 1930s maverick astronomer Fritz Zwicky was passed up on being awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the neutron star, even though he was the one to originally predict that there must be such a thing, apparently the astronomy community was very seclusive and elitist at the time and preferred that one of their own be recognized for this achievement rather than the one who actually discovered it.

Zwicky then published a catalog of galaxies and in the opening he described the elite of the astronomy community as “spherical bastards” because: “they are bastards any way you looked at them.”

I’d call this an *ahem* universally excellent insult…