Bases Quote by Ilya Prigogine

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process…

— Walter Isaacson

“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of quantum mechanics…

— John D. Barrow

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 chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“There was an interesting early relationship between physics and biology in which biology helped physics in the discovery of the conservation of energy, which…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

“Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on…

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the…

— Richard P. Feynman

We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without…

— James Clerk Maxwell