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“Wewak embolden the skipper to take even more unconventional risks”
― Running Deep: Bravery, Survival, and the True Story of the Deadliest Submarine in World War II
― Running Deep: Bravery, Survival, and the True Story of the Deadliest Submarine in World War II
“Entropy, according to Boltzmann, is a measure of a physical probability, and the meaning of the second law of thermodynamics is that the more probable a state is, the more frequently will it occur in nature. Now what one measures are only the differences of entropy, and never entropy itself, and consequently one cannot speak, in a definite way, of the absolute entropy of a state.”
― Quantum Theory
― Quantum Theory
“Analysts, following the tradition established by F.A. Wolf, argue that narrative discrepancies, such as inconsistent divine interventions or abrupt transitions (notably Book 10’s Doloneia), suggest multiple poets whose works were later unified into the epics we now possess.”
― The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations
― The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations
“Were there not even these inducements to moderation”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
“Martin West posits a more nuanced model in which a literate poet dictated the Iliad to scribes around 700 BCE, effectively blending oral performance with written fixation, a theory gaining traction for its balanced approach to the evidence.11”
― The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations
― The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations
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