David Mermin Quotes

#1. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.

David Mermin

#2. Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

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#3. If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!

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#4. I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

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#5. An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

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#6. One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

David Mermin