Carrying on Quote by David Goodstein

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its…

— Ilya Prigogine

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

— J. Philippe Rushton

“electricity and magnetism into a set of four elegant mathematical equations. On seeing them, Ludwig Boltzmann immediately recognised the magnitude of Maxwell’s achievement and…

— Manjit Kumar

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study of homogeneous…

— Walter M. Elsasser

“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic world, is…

— Nick Gogerty

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are…

— Seth Shostak

“Science doesn’t yet know for certain why a universe ever managed to begin, or why it began so highly ordered, scientists just believe that…

— Gevin Giorbran

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do…

— Ilya Prigogine