• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I 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.

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        5 months ago

        The book “States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein.

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          5 months ago

          That’s a good one lol, love it when a textbook has some humor.

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        5 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”