Second Law Quotes

29 quotes by 24 authors

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
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
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
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
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett
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
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
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
Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black. — Paul Newman
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
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
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. — Seth Lloyd
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
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
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
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

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