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  • People Brian and i are good friends. let me tell you Dean Stockwall/well/all/ell is a darn dreamboat and heard about all his wives on “quantam leap”.

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  • There is a lot more going on in this book, including the idea the creation of jazz music shows the same new ways of thinking that make quantam mechanics understandable, or at least understandable to some.

    In War Times Tripp 2009

  • However: Unless you can drag Heisenberg and the boys out of the sub-atomic quantam realm beyond what anybody has been able to do yet , you still can't get more out than you put in, up here in the macrocosm-- last time I looked, nobody had busted the laws of thermodynamics yet regarding your double Whopper with bacon and cheese.

    Why Live? Steven Barnes 2009

  • The tone is accessible and enjoyable even when discussing subjects as arcane to me as quantam physics.

    What the Deadmen Say Ed Gorman 2007

  • The tone is accessible and enjoyable even when discussing subjects as arcane to me as quantam physics.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • Monteforti, a French lord, anno 1345, tanta corvorum multitudo aedibus morientis insedit, quantam esse in Gallia nemo judicasset (a multitude of crows alighted on the house of the dying man, such as no one imagined existed in France).

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Praeceptis philosophiae confirmatus adversus omnem fortunae vim, et te consecrata in coelumque recepta, tanta affectus laetitia sum ac voluptate, quantam animo capere possum, ac exultare plane mihi videor, victorque de omni dolore et fortuna triumphare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • She would also know the claim that mutations are random in the statistical sense is the only claim that Darwinism can scientifically make in that regard; from which it follows that no metaphysical claim about the actual cause of the statistically random mutations can enter into Darwinism – whether that claim is that the mutations were caused by God, or that they are simply the consequences of quantam fluctuations in a fully naturalistic universe.

    Clear Thinking? 2005

  • Vix dici potest quantam inde audaciam assumerent Hispani, inde pauci infinitas Maurorum copias superarunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ad haec perpetranda furore rapti ducuntur, cruciatus quosvis tolerant, et mortem, et furore exacerbato audent et ad supplicia plus irritantur, mirum est quantam habeant in tormentis patientiam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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