• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.

  • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    One opening line that’s always stuck with me is:

    “The doctor said I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn’t actually say it, but we knew he was thinking it.”

  • Pulptastic@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    My favorite class in grad school. I absolutely loved deriving the laws of thermodynamics from first principles based the random motion of atoms. It was beautiful.