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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… — Claude Shannon
- Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made… — 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… — 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… — David Goodstein
- You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under… — John Von Neumann