Spin Glass/edwards-anderson Model

Famous quotes containing the words spin, glass and/or model:

    “In tragic life, God wot,
    No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
    We are betrayed by what is false within.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)

    “It is difficult to read. The page is dark.
    Yet he knows what it is that he expects.
    The page is blank or a frame without a glass
    Or a glass that is empty when he looks.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
    —Erik H. Erikson (20th century)