An urban legend from physics is that Murray Gell-Mann deliberately chose whimsical terms for his ideas, such as "quark" and "up, down, charm, strange, truth, an

An urban legend from physics is that Murray Gell-Mann deliberately chose whimsical terms for his ideas, such as "quark" and "up, down, charm, strange, truth, and beauty." The rationale was to prevent any possibly application of a familiar definition or social implications of the terms, such as was applied to "relativity."