'Dirt people'... I love the way that physicists sneer at other sciences. To quote Rutherford: 'All Science Is Either Physics or Stamp Collecting'.
While kind of funny, it was a cruel thing to try to dissuade anyone from their passion. Also, unbeknownst to me, the Biology teacher had just walked in behind me at that precise moment.
Also, I think engineers generally get the brunt of it — as in the joke:
Mathematician: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, so by induction all odd numbers are prime.
Physicist: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, nine is .... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, etc.
Engineer: Three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, nine is prime, eleven is prime, etc.