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SFI Press releases new editions of Murray Gell-Mann books โ€” SFI Press The opening lines of Homerโ€™s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero as polytropos, a man of many turns. Itโ€™s no coincidence that SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann invoked Homerโ€™s crafty, long-voyaging hero...

Polytropos, a man of many turns.

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Murray described his ideal scientist as an โ€˜Odyssean,โ€™ one who lives somewhere between the analytical Apollonian and the intuitive Dionysian, one who loves to simplify yet is equally enamored of complication.
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