The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait! — Jim Warner Copy Share Image
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“As the biologist Leslie Orgel´s second law states: „Evolution is smarter than you are.” — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal… — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
“Tony Rothman points out, “Why the second law should distinguish between past and future while all the other laws of nature do… — Melanie Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Dr. James Baker, former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in 2005, “There’s a better scientific consensus on this… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Evolution presupposes an innate tendency toward progress and increasing order and complexity in the universe, but the second law of thermodynamics proves… — Dr. Henry Morris Copy Share Image
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our… — David Christian Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall… — Henry Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Murphy's Laws (as posted in Arizona Humor) Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes… — Murphys Laws Copy Share Image
“What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is:… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“There is always a price to pay when energy is processed; there is no free lunch. Because energy underlies the transformation and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]….… — Judea Pearl Copy Share Image
“Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states, “[A]lthough the total energy in the cosmos remains constant, the amount of… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
“If Henry Adams, whom you knew slightly, could make a theory of history by applying the second law of thermodynamics to human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Cindy, have you heard of the second law of thermodynamics?” “Yes. Something about heat energy can never be created or destroyed?” “That’s… — Behcet Kaya Copy Share Image
“Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs. Second Law: A difference engine… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Kepler’s second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. It takes as long to travel from B to A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“Dr. James Baker, former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in 2005, “There’s a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know—except maybe Newton’s second law of [thermo]dynamics.” Nonetheless,” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c8/jane-mayer-1031_scientific-consensus_dr-james-baker-former-head-of-the-nation_1893784.jpg)
![“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, not getting more complex. But that's NOT what the…” quote by Donald R. Prothero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/donald-r-prothero-47249_complex-systems_n-early-every-creationist-debater-will-m_881012.jpg)
![“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]…. The second law of Thermodynamics, for example, has been interpreted in many textbooks as though Nature exhibits an incurable tendency to disrupt order. Nature, of course…” quote by Judea Pearl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/judea-pearl-150063_nature_the-illusion-that-nature-adopts-the-same_906910.jpg)
![“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 to do useful work is always getting smaller.” 70 The second law of thermodynamics assumes that the universe is a closed system because…” quote by Jeff Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/jeff-myers-66878_air-force_second-law-of-thermodynamics-the-second_1281818.jpg)
