coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate! — David Mermin Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
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… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining.… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
