He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
[Doc is scornful about the idea of falling in love]
Marty McFly: Aw, come on, Doc, it's not science! When it happens, it just hits you. It's like lightning!
Doc: [shudders] Marty, please don't say that!
