Tony Rothman points out, “Why the second law should…

“One of the most profitable consequences of science as an “open system” of knowledge, as opposed to rigid dogma, is that the future Laws…

— Dean Radin

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

— Steve Allen

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do…

— Desmond Tutu

Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme…

— Ronald Fisher

“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

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

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler,…

— Clay Shirky

An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of…

— David Christian

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— C.P. Snow

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

— Daniel Dennett

“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process…

— Walter Isaacson

“Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs. Second Law: A difference engine must be…

— Gideon Defoe

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