Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of…

There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which…

— Anne Roe

“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

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

— Mark Hyman

We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without…

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

— Daniel Dennett

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

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