Mermin Quotes & Sayings

So you're Merlin the Magician? We studied you in school last year." I had no idea the guy was so wacky. "Oh no, Merlin was my bwother." Mermin smiled. "Made quite a name for himself in your world," he chuckled. — L.R.W. Lee

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset. — Nicolas Winding Refn

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

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. — LeRoy Neiman

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

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. — David Mermin

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. — Thomas Jefferson

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 that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong. — David Mermin

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it. — Walter Isaacson

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. — Roger Moore

I don't wanna go throught the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
Without your all-consuming
Passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
What if I had given everything?
Instead of going through the motions. — Matthew West

Spiderman and Superman were closeted bodybuilders: they wore bodysuits that decently covered their flesh and masks that disguised their identity; their lives were rigidly divided between body-less bourgeois respectability and muscular super-hero fantasy; they led a 'double-life' that no one knew about and were never to be seen at the gym. — Mark Simpson

We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't. — Tom Perrotta

Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today. — James H. Cone

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 has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why. — David Mermin

Never let someone dim your light, simply because it's shining in their eyes — Fuel

From this moment forward, we play by our own rules. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Our new mission begins now. — Lara Adrian

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

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness. — Robert Kroese

We don't get to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us, but we can choose to believe what He says about us. — Angie Smith

But Dad! It really did happen! I was transported to a Laboratory in an old stone castle and there was a wizard in blue robes with a floppy hat and ... — L.R.W. Lee

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

Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom. — J.R. Ward

There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve. — Archibald Marwizi

This is not about you," reminded the inneru.
I know ... thought Andy. It's about all the people in the Land of Oomaldee. It is about the King, Mermin, Alden, Marta, Hans and everyone I've come to love here.
"You don't usually think about others first," replied his inneru.
Maybe this is my chance to change that. — L.R.W. Lee