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David Mermin est physicien américain.

✵ 30. mars 1935
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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 a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.”

quoting a joke he heard from Rudolf Peierls. [N. David Mermin, Boojums all the way through: communicating science in a prosaic age, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 0-521-38880-5, 57]

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

[N. David Mermin, Boojums all the way through: communicating science in a prosaic age, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 0-521-38880-5, xi]

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

What's Wrong with this Pillow? http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTOAD000042000004000009000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes by N. David Mermin, Cornell University, Physics Today, April 1989, page 9, doi:10.1063/1.2810963

Misattributed to Richard Feynman, by Matthew effect.

Attribution discussed in: Could Feynman Have Said This? http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_57/iss_5/10_1.shtml by N. David Mermin, Physics Today, May 2004, page 10 ( DOC http://web.archive.org/web/20040929192449/http://www.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/materias/FisGral2/PhysicsToday/PhysicsTodayMay2004ReferenceFrame.doc)

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

How not to create tigers http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.882769, Physics Today, Volume 52, Issue 8, August 1999, p. 11

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

Richard P. Feynman in a letter to N. David Mermin, related to his AJP paper Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody, American Journal of Physics, Volume 49, Issue 10, pp. 940-943 (1981), as quoted in [Michelle Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, Basic Books, 2005, 0-7382-0636-9, 367]

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