--- title: "2 Peter Guthrie Tait Quotes" description: "Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Tre..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/peter-guthrie-tait-93319_clausius_it-is-very-desirable-to-have-a-word-to-e_111047.jpg" --- # Peter Guthrie Tait **2** quotes in **13** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. ## Quotes by Peter Guthrie Tait > [“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-guthrie-tait/it-is-very-desirable-to-have-a-word-to-express-the-availability-for/) Peter Guthrie Tait [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/peter-guthrie-tait-93319_clausius_it-is-very-desirable-to-have-a-word-to-e_111047.jpg) > [“If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-guthrie-tait/if-it-were-possible-for-a-metaphysician-to-be-a-golfer-he-might/) Peter Guthrie Tait [Falstaff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falstaff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/peter-guthrie-tait-93319_falstaff_if-it-were-possible-for-a-metaphysician_1257178.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-guthrie-tait/#itemlist", "name": "Peter Guthrie Tait Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excellent word Entropy, which Clausius has introduced in this connexion, is applied by him to the negative of the idea we most naturally wish to express. It would only confuse the student if we were to endeavour to invent another term for our purpose. But the necessity for some such term will be obvious from the beautiful examples which follow. And we take the liberty of using the term Entropy in this altered sense ... 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If he did notice it, his methods would naturally lead him to content himself with his caddies's remark-'ye heeled that yin,' or 'Ye jist sliced it.' ... But a scientific man is not to be put off with such flimsy verbiage as that. He must know more. What is 'Heeling', what is 'slicing', and why would either operation (if it could be thoroughly carried out) send a ball as if to cover point, thence to long slip, and finally behind back-stop? 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