Amongst lesser matters (like Nobel n'such), he coined Quark.. threw in the trowel at 89 (after years of Mortar-boarding-academia) ... from M.I.T. ---> onwards.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."