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barsquid@lemmy.world 2 months agoI love that quote. I should buy that book just as an artifact to make me happy every time I see it. The absolute pinnacle of self-aware humor.
Comment on Physics
barsquid@lemmy.world 2 months agoI love that quote. I should buy that book just as an artifact to make me happy every time I see it. The absolute pinnacle of self-aware humor.
amenji@programming.dev 2 months ago
Which book?
gentooer@programming.dev 2 months ago
The book “States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein.
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amenji@programming.dev 2 months ago
That’s a good one lol, love it when a textbook has some humor.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can’t remember which text it is, but it opens talking about a bunch of physicists studying stat mech then suck starting shotguns. Then it goes “and now it’s our turn to study statistical mechanics”