Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a… — Henry Albert Ben Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics].… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image