Professor Julius Sumner Miller
"I find this place where I get the mostest light - the
mostest light. The mostest. That's the superlative of 'most'. I'm
reciting something of Euclid. Beautiful - you should read it. 'Normal'
does not mean 'ordinary' or 'commonplace'. It means 'perpendicular' in
our language".
Professor Julius Sumner Miller was the brilliant and wonderfully
mad television professor who introduced young Australians to science
with his famous signature question, “Why is it so?”.
He was deep, forthright, aggressive, brusque, and more than a
little scary. Miller never tried to deliberately harm or humiliate
any of the high school students on The Julius Sumner Miller Show,
but he knew that if he pushed them far enough, almost certainly the
answer would come out of them, and he tried to get them to make that
jump.
He made science accessible to everybody and turned the boring
things you learned at school into fun. In later years, he also
advertised Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate!
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