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Julius Sumner Miller
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“Why is it so?”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stock phrase, which he used often throughout his career, after he had demonstrated something to an audience, beginning in 1959 with his educational program, Why Is It So? on KNXT Channel 2 in Los Angeles, California.
“Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Is It So?, episode 1 (1963), Australian ABC Television show
“It is important that we subscribe to the requirements of nature.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Is It So?, (1964), Australian ABC Television show
“My view is this: We teach nothing. We do not teach physics nor do we teach students. (I take physics merely as an example.) What is the same thing: No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour for no one can be taught a thing. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. To my own teachers who handled me in this way, I owe a great and lasting debt.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Julius Sumner Miller, in What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967), by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University.
“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Science Demonstrations, #30 Physics of Toys: Electrostatic - Magnetic, Instructional TV Service (1969)
“Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987)
“We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987)
“My first TV series on demonstrations in physics — titled Why Is It So? were now seen and heard over the land. The mail was massive. The academics were a special triumph for me. They charged me with being superficial and trivial. If I had done what they wanted my programs would be as dull as their classes! I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. Why cloud the charm of a Chladni plate with a Bessel function?”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Days of My Life : An Autobiography (1989), p. 212