Thermodynamics Quotes

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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
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
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
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
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy… — Gilbert N. Lewis
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett
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
Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it,… — Arnold Sommerfeld
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. — Seth Lloyd
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the… — Dean Kamen
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea,… — James Clerk Maxwell
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
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
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
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our… — Jon Foreman
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles… — Ben Stein
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy! — Andy Weir
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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