Second Law Quotes
29 quotes by 24 authors
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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
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by…
— Jacques Monod
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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 plus…
— Arthur Eddington
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If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's…
— Arthur Eddington
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Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that
— Daniel Dennett
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For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
— Wendell Berry
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There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point…
— D. James Baker
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There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
— Wendell Berry
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Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
— Paul Newman
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Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder…
— Stephen Hawking
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life.…
— Joseph Campbell
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
— Seth Lloyd
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Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics…
— Duane Gish
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The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement…
— Rudolf Clausius
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I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation…
— Nigel Rees
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
— Joseph Campbell
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Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of…
— Brian Ellis
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Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.
— Boris Beizer
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Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and…
— Lyn Gardner
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and…
— Carrie P Snow
Who Wrote These Second Law Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 29 Second Law Quotes as follows: