Law Quote by Walter Isaacson

“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

It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the…

— Jacob Bronowski

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial.…

— Stephen Hawking

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 illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]…. The second…

— Judea Pearl

“Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme…

— Ronald Fisher

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

“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are properties of…

— Ronald A. Fisher

“THE WORLD IS APPROACHING TOWARDS ANARCHY" : The second law of thermodynamics concludes that the entropy of universe is increasing with time . Which…

— Anup Joshi

“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that…

— Arthur Eddington

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be…

— Vaclav Havel