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David Mermin

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[Wikipedia] Nathaniel David Mermin is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem, his application of the term "boojum" to superfluidity, his textbook with Neil Ashcroft on solid-state physics, and for contributions to the foundations of quantum mec

Quotes by David Mermin

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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If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up…

Copenhagen

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...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,…

Assertion

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coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that…

Art

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Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery…

Discovery

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

Beautiful

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I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then…

Deciding what you want

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

Available

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An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at…

Bookshelves

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