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

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

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

- David Mermin

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

- David Mermin

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 …

- David Mermin

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

- David Mermin

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

- David Mermin

...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 ha…

- David Mermin