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 MerminEverything, 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 MerminOne of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.
David MerminOver 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