Statistical Mechanics Quotes
5 quotes by 5 authors
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call…
— Claude Shannon
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Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in…
— Rudolph A. Marcus
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Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died…
— David Goodstein
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You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so…
— John Von Neumann
Who Wrote These Statistical Mechanics Quotes
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