The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder.… — Terry Pratchett 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
The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely,… — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms,… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein 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
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot 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
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Representation is a process of informational triangulation. Its aim is the specification of distal stimuli. It achieves that aim by corralling the… — Dan Lloyd Copy Share Image
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been… — William John Macquorn Rankine 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
The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion. — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game. — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
