We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. (Michael Polanyi)

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Michael Polanyi

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