Cost is always an object - the second law of…

If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once…

— Henry Brooks Adams

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

— Jim Warner

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall…

— Henry Adams

I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like…

— Alan Lightman

“Cindy, have you heard of the second law of thermodynamics?” “Yes. Something about heat energy can never be created or destroyed?” “That’s the first…

— Behcet Kaya

Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of…

— Duane Gish

There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of…

— Arthur Eddington

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms…

— Seth Lloyd

Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside…

— John Archibald Wheeler

“Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states, “[A]lthough the total energy in the cosmos remains constant, the amount of energy available…

— Jeff Myers

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated…

— Anonymous

It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the…

— Jacob Bronowski

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial.…

— Stephen Hawking

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.…

— Rudolf Clausius

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

— Seth Lloyd