While working on the books I came across the following quote. It seems
to me to be quite an interesting statement. Does anyone know if this
can actually be a true statement? The statement is:
If a piece of string were exactly the same all along, however thin it
was, however great the weight hung on it, and however much you jerked
it, it could not break--it wouldn't know where to break.
The Collected Works of Paul Valéry
Valéry, Paul
Volume 14
Analects (p. 322)
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Carl C. Gaither & Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither (Authors)
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