>It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, at the end, the decision is made as to which idea was the best---summing it all up---without having to say it three times.

Can we attribute this to the fact that in physics, everything can be validated mathematically? Hence less room for debate.