Statistical Mechanics Quotes

5 quotes by 5 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

5 authors contributed a total of 5 Statistical Mechanics Quotes as follows:

• 1 Statistical Mechanics Quote by Robert Andrews Millikan
• 1 Statistical Mechanics Quote by Rudolph A. Marcus
• 1 Statistical Mechanics Quote by David Goodstein
• 1 Statistical Mechanics Quote by John von Neumann
• 1 Statistical Mechanics Quote by Claude Shannon