David Mermin Quotes

• 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

  Would Be, Shut Up, Copenhagen

  N. David Mermin (2016). “Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• Una extrapolación de su actual ritmo de crecimiento revela que en un futuro no muy lejano Physical Review llenará las estanterías de los libros a una velocidad superior a la de la luz. Esto no está prohibido por la relatividad general, ya que no se transmite información.

  David Mermin

  Light, Growth, Information

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

  David Mermin

  Beautiful, Paper, Physics

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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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 the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.

  David Mermin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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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, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.

  David Mermin

  Reading, Science, Past

  "Boojums All the Way Through". Book by N. David Mermin, 1990.

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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 that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.

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  Discovery, Matter, Should

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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 discovering it.

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  Discovery, People, Doe

  N. David Mermin (2016). “Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• ...los físicos contemporáneos son de dos tipos. A los físicos del tipo 1 les molestan la EPR y el Teorema de Bell. Los del tipo 2 (la mayoría) no, pero hay que distinguir dos subvariedades. Los físicos del tipo 2a explican por qué no les molestan. Sus explicaciones tienden o bien a perder el punto por completo (como la de Born a Einstein) o bien a contener afirmaciones físicas que se puede demostrar que son falsas. A los del tipo 2b no les molesta y se niegan a explicar por qué.

  David Mermin

  Science, Two, Missing

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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.

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  Past, Expression, Years

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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