“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

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)

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