Break Quote by Dennis Overbye

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the…

— C.P. Snow

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

— Jim Warner

“One, two, three, four, we don't want your fuckin' laws of thermodynamics!”

— David Rakoff

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs

“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of energy. Because…

— Nickolas Butler

This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

— Mark Hyman

The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy of the…

— Anonymous

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

— Dan Castellaneta

“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington