David Mermin Quotes
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
Quotes to Explore
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.
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Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
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Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
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I've tried my best, but the wind was too strong and I felt a bit tired.
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
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We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are enshrined in corresponding international documents, and finding a way to settle all disputes without destroying the entire foundation of international law that evolved as a result of World War II is a highly delicate task. Therefore, I would like to reiterate that we cannot second-guess the course, let alone the outcome of our negotiations.
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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
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There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
