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

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Source : N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

David Mermin

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“Vision is the Source and hope of life.Â The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision.Â Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. â€˜Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.â€™Â Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision.”
“I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.”
“Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.”
“I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.”
“Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.”
“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”
“I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.”
“Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.”

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